This guy does inadvertently raise a potentially interesting question: from inside your own brain, how can you tell whether you are dead wrong or a persecuted visionary?

What, like these?

Yeah, I think you've got a big piece of it. It seems to me, though, that our policy since the collapse of the Soviet Union *has* been to irritate Russia - they've just finally recovered to the point where they can throw a tantrum about it. I can't help but feel like every administration from H.W. Bush until now has seriously mismanaged assisting Russia with its transition out of Soviet Communism. There had to be a better way to assist and protect the territorial integrity of the newly sovereign Eastern European nations - or some bargain so that Russia did not feel threatened by the expansion of NATO.