I feel like I read a lot of Scott Ritter in the aftermath of 911 and lost track of him since. My loss, since this interview gave a more open-eyed perspective than I've heard elsewhere. Hudson was a major influence on my book, where I have a section called World on FIRE and chapters on Attack of the Petrodactyls and the Petropocalypse. Owning the oil and gas is just chump change, the big game hunters are after the currency it trades in. And Putin just bagged the petroruble.