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President Donald Trump has long said that his goal in Iran is to ensure that the country never develops a nuclear weapon, but Vice President JD Vance this week seemed to suggest that the administration’s goals have now changed. 

Speaking to Fox News on Thursday, August 13, the vice president said that keeping energy affordable for Americans is now “goal No. 1,” putting the issue ahead of preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and potentially preparing to soften the blow in the event that the president announces he is withdrawing U.S.

After months of war, years of sanctions, and decades of mismanagement, the Iranian economy is facing a major squeeze.

IMF Predicts Major Inflation

Iran Army Tank. Image Credit: Creative Commons.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) currently forecasts that Iran’s consumer-price inflation will average 68.9% this year.

Meanwhile, real GDP is set to shrink by 5.4%. The IMF also puts the country’s population at just short of 88 million. For these millions of ordinary people outside the regime’s corrupt networks, the price of food, in particular, is causing concern.

US President Donald J. Trump has said the Strait of Hormuz will be made a U.S. territory.

Speaking at a Long Island police training facility on Friday, Trump claimed Iran was getting “very badly defeated,” implying that Washington already had the ability to control the crucial waterway.

President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks at the General Motors Proving Ground in Milford, Michigan, Monday, July 27, 2026.

Key rocket and space facilities have been attacked in Russia, Kyiv said on Saturday.

According to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian forces successfully targeted the Progress Rocket and Space Center in Russia’s Samara region, some 900 kilometers away from their shared border.

M109 Artillery Creative Commons Photo.

He said that Ukrainian-manufactured FP-5 “Flamingo” missiles were used in the attack.   Roscosmos, Russia’s state-run space firm, owns the site, which works on critical rocket technology.

The Black Sea has become a growing battleground in the war between Russia and Ukraine, with Ukraine earlier this week launching an attack on grain export terminals in the Russian port city of Novorossiysk, damaging grain facilities. The attacks, Ukraine proclaimed, utilized a swarm of missiles, aerial drones, and naval drones.

It marked the latest of a series of attacks, in which Ukraine has struck more than 200 ships in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in the last two months. Russia, in turn, has been striking Ukraine’s southern Black Sea ports.

U.S. Air Force Maj.

The Department of Defense is doing something that would have been unremarkable a generation ago: teaching America’s children the truth about where Western civilization came from. Under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s direction, the Department of War Education Activity (DoWEA) is rolling out a new ‘Western Civilization to 1500’ course this fall across the roughly 160 schools it operates for military families worldwide.

The top officer for U.S. Central Command visited the USS Abraham Lincoln on Saturday, as families of sailors onboard continue to report poor conditions and low morale. 
Adm. Brad Cooper’s visit to the Lincoln was part of a 10-day tour in the region, meeting with troops and commanders, as well as allies in the Middle East. He spent several hours on the ship, according to a CENTCOM spokesperson, the one ship he visited during the tour.

Eight years after public location data on fitness apps such as Strava revealed U.S. troop locations and maps of bases, hundreds of service members in the Middle East are still sharing their information on them despite efforts by the military to prohibit that.
This week, Sky News published the results of an investigation showing that more than 1,300 separate users of the fitness tracker app Strava logged workouts at military sites in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility, across multiple countries.

The Republic of China Army is increasingly building its defence strategy around a simple slowing and disrupting hostile advances using underground fortifications, as highlighted at the latest Han Kuang exercises. At the Hsuehshan Tunnel, a critical transportation link connecting Yilan on Taiwan Island’s east coast with the Taipei region, the Army military simulated blocking the tunnel to prevent a hostile force from using the route to advance toward Taipei.

The airman who died during a physical fitness test last year died as a result of sudden cardiac arrest and had no pre-existing conditions, the Air Force said in a new report.
The report from Air Education and Training Command, released Aug. 12, found that Airman First Class Syamukonka Moonga collapsed shortly after finishing the 1.5-mile run segment of a practice physical fitness assessment on Aug. 4, 2025.  He was unconscious and without a pulse. Other trainees and the leader overseeing the training began attempting to resuscitate him.