US Is Squandering its Global Leverage With Ukraine and Iran

President Donald Trump sees the art of geopolitics as a matter of money and leverage. As a result, he’s relied on fellow businesspeople to do the work of diplomats in Gaza, Ukraine and the Persian Gulf — and they have failed. As Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini once put it, the revolution that founded the Islamic Republic of Iran “was not about the price of watermelons.”