As the Trump administration is dealing with the difficult situation of the six-month war with Iran, its strategic goals are being significantly reduced and rearranged. At the beginning of the war, the US side set a series of absolute goals, including forcing Iran to completely surrender, achieving regime change, preventing it from possessing nuclear weapons, and cutting off its support for agents in the Middle East. However, as the war dragged on, the US government was gradually accepting lower expectations. On Thursday local time, US Vice President J.D. Vance clearly proposed the two core goals of the current war in the program, and their prioritization attracted great attention from the outside world. Vance said that the primary goal is to ensure that the Gulf countries continue to deliver oil and gas to the world to maintain stable energy prices, that is, “so that people all over the US can use cheap oil and gas”; while “ensuring that Iran will never be able to obtain nuclear weapons” is listed as a secondary goal. This statement is in stark contrast to the US side's consistent position of putting “nuclear proliferation prevention” first. Although White House press secretary Caroline Levitt later tried to “make up” and reiterated that these two goals are “equally important” for the president, incorporating domestic oil and gas prices into core strategic considerations and putting them above nuclear prevention issues still marks a major shift in US policy towards Iraq. Analysts believe that this latest statement further shows that at a time when the war is at an impasse, the US government is preparing to drastically lower its strategic target expectations.

As the Trump administration is dealing with the difficult situation of the six-month war with Iran, its strategic goals are being significantly reduced and rearranged. At the beginning of the war, the US side set a series of absolute goals, including forcing Iran to completely surrender, achieving regime change, preventing it from possessing nuclear weapons, and cutting off its support for agents in the Middle East. However, as the war dragged on, the US government was gradually accepting lower expectations. On Thursday local time, US Vice President J.D. Vance clearly proposed the two core goals of the current war in the program, and their prioritization attracted great attention from the outside world. Vance said that the primary goal is to ensure that the Gulf countries continue to deliver oil and gas to the world to maintain stable energy prices, that is, “so that people all over the US can use cheap oil and gas”; while “ensuring that Iran will never be able to obtain nuclear weapons” is listed as a secondary goal. This statement is in stark contrast to the US side's consistent position of putting “nuclear proliferation prevention” first. Although White House press secretary Caroline Levitt later tried to “make up” and reiterated that these two goals are “equally important” for the president, incorporating domestic oil and gas prices into core strategic considerations and putting them above nuclear prevention issues still marks a major shift in US policy towards Iraq. Analysts believe that this latest statement further shows that at a time when the war is at an impasse, the US government is preparing to drastically lower its strategic target expectations.