Listen to people speaking inside their area of expertise. He has expertise in the relatively narrow area of arms control with Russians and in the middle east. The current obsession with whether to like him or agree with him or various aspects of ideological purity or whether everything he says on every subject stands up to scrutiny or should be listened to uncritically is a bit baffling abut a bit typical.

Like, is the fear we are all going to become pro-war if GG doesn’t “hardtalk” Ritter? Are we really so fragile?

Its a nice spring day in London, lets treasure it while it lasts.