Opinion | Why America Is Its Own Biggest Geopolitical Risk

This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your podcasts. Over the past month, there have been two dominant stories in American foreign policy. One, of course, is the war with Iran. The other is the much-anticipated summit between President Trump and Xi Jinping of China. If you look closely at both of these stories, you see that our foreign policy has entered into a period of absolute incoherence. Trump said that the point of the war with Iran was to end the threat of the Iranian regime and…