‘In the middle of a crowd you can be the worlds loneliest man’ . I imagine Scott (even with all his courage) might feel like this…that’s why he needs all the support he can get from fair open-minded people, like we who listen to him believe ourselves to be. And Scott isn’t ‘cheerleading for Russia’ he’s desperately trying to tell the collective headlong-marauding west that they’ve gone so wrong that they’re about to cast themselves off the cliff that’s just over the next hill which on there own they’ll never see.