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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about

politics. It's Thursday, October 1st. I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker.

On Wednesday, Russia started airstrikes in Syria. Here's Senator John McCain speaking from

the Senate floor.

So already we are seeing the true intentions of Vladimir Putin, which is to maintain a strong position in Syria, his foothold in the Middle East, and is propping up of Bashar Assad.

At the United Nations, Putin anticipated this reaction.

Dear colleagues, I must note that such an honest and frank approach of Russia has been

recently used as a pretext to accuse it of its growing ambitions, as if those

who say it have no ambitions at all.

Joshua Yaffa joins me from Moscow to discuss Russia's intervention in Syria and the changing

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