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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. It's Friday, April 14th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Over the last week or two, President

Trump appears to have changed his mind on a few major diplomatic fronts. Two of them converged on

Wednesday when Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow,

and Trump gave a press conference at the White House with the Secretary General of NATO.

The subject of Russia came up in the wake of the administration's missile strikes in Syria.

It would be wonderful, as we were discussing just a little while ago, if NATO and our country

could get along with Russia.

Right now, we're not getting along with Russia at all.

We may be at an all-time low in terms of relationship with Russia.

This is built for a long period of time.

But we're going to see what happens. Putin is the leader of Russia. Russia is a strong country. We're a very, very strong country. We're going to see how that all works out.

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