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It’s tragic to listen to Lavrov and compare to his western counterparts. The man has incredible grasp on the breadth of history, the details in depth, its lessons, and ideas for the future.

He’s flawed like a lot of people of his age, when it comes to being scraping of cultures not his, and that’s his weakness and that’s probably an achilles heel for his country in the long term.

But in comparison to the likes of Blinken, Rubio, David Lammy, Baerbock, he’s in another league entirely.

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