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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

Jon Lee Anderson and Steve Sestanovich on the new Russian threat.

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Obama, Washington, Politics, President, Barack, Lizza, Wnyc, News, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2014

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Jon Lee Anderson and Steve Sestanovich on the new Russian threat.

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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Thursday, March 20th. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive

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editor of The New Yorker. Earlier this week, as Putin formalized Russia's annexation of Crimea,

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Vice President Joe Biden tried to reassure allies in Poland.

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Russia has offered a variety of arguments to justify what is nothing more than a land grab.

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But the world has seen through, has seen through Russia's action and has rejected the logic, the flawed logic behind those actions.

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John Lee Anderson is on the phone with us from Kiev.

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Steven Sistanovich, who served in the Reagan and the Clinton administrations as a specialist

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on Russia, has just written a book about America's role in the world from Truman to Obama.

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He's joining us from Washington. Welcome to the program, Steve. Thanks. John Lee, last week you were in Crimea. Putin, of course,

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says that the vast majority of Crimeans supports a session from Ukraine and joining Russia. But what did

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you find while you were there? It's difficult to take polls when there are

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soldiers with balaclavas and automatic weapons appearing on the street. As a Western reporter,

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