#3 is enormously true. Not just Russia, but any other country we can push around. So many people honestly ask, "Why do they hate us?" If they had any concept

#3 is enormously true. Not just Russia, but any other country we can push around. So many people honestly ask, "Why do they hate us?" If they had any concept of what we have actually done--most of which is still within living memory--that may just be enough to change our foreign policy into something slightly less disastrous.