Grames

An objective reality must exist in order for there to be truth and falsehood.  To claim "objective reality does not exist" is a statement which is true or false.  Also, it is stated in such a way that proving the statement requires proving a negative which can only be done by inventorying the Universe and determining that every last corner of it is non-objective.  If that could somehow be accomplished, that would immediately create at least that one objectively true fact and the effort refutes itself.

This is possible.
However, the announcement itself played another, a much bigger role: it allowed Germany to accept to send its own tanks, Leopard 2, to Ukraine. And also to agree that other countries, having these tanks, to send them to Ukraine.
PS: The links in your signature do not work.

Since when is Ukraine a western interest?  Never.  It is only a relatively western place from the perspective of Russia.  Only the imperial conceptual framework that undergirds the American Empire can possibly construe Ukraine as a western interest.  The point of being an empire is that expansion to the maximum possible limit is necessary to keep the currency flowing, and what defines the maximum possible limit is repeated failures when attempting further expansion.
The American government has no business being as deeply involved in Ukraine as it is.  The personal finances of American government officials are tied to Ukrainian finance schemes, so they make Ukraine into government business.  It is corrupt.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain

Since when is Ukraine a western interest?  Never.  It is only a relatively western place from the perspective of Russia.  Only the imperial conceptual framework that undergirds the American Empire can possibly construe Ukraine as a western interest.  The point of being an empire is that expansion to the maximum possible limit is necessary to keep the currency flowing, and what defines the maximum possible limit is repeated failures when attempting further expansion.
The American government has no business being as deeply involved in Ukraine as it is.  The personal finances of American government officials are tied to Ukrainian finance schemes, so they make Ukraine into government business.  It is corrupt.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain

Since when is Ukraine a western interest?  Never.  It is only a relatively western place from the perspective of Russia.  Only the imperial conceptual framework that undergirds the American Empire can possibly construe Ukraine as a western interest.  The point of being an empire is that expansion to the maximum possible limit is necessary to keep the currency flowing, and what defines the maximum possible limit is repeated failures when attempting further expansion.
The American government has no business being as deeply involved in Ukraine as it is.  The personal finances of American government officials are tied to Ukrainian finance schemes, so they make Ukraine into government business.  It is corrupt.
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain

It doesn't mean supporting Russia, but it can. Grames literally said he supports Russia. I stated my preferences as well. Not "I think Russia is right here" but "Russia is in the superior moral position on a global stage regarding just about any issue". 

?? Why must I be the one tasked with an opinion?
An aside (may be relevant):
"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it". Mark Twain
IF, as I believe, NATO is inextricably tied to "American and Western interests"  I am of the opinion the USA should prepare to leave NATO.  (After this is over). Not that I can see it happening soon. But the binding "encumbrances" elsewhere are not in American - rational - interests.
The big picture I hear from geopoliticians is nearing the close of "a unipolar world" and the "rules -based order". Dominated and led by the USA during this post-Cold War period, for which I and most in the world would be thankful. But it has served its critical purpose - all good things must end.
I think their analysis is true, and the war was a catalyst for this change, for better or worse.
(They enthuse about the emerging multi-polarity of neutral, non-aligned, non-western countries, which would not support and/or condemn the West/Ukraine or Russia on issues of sanctions etc. . I have doubts).
 
 
 

That is an unjust smearing, and par for the course with you.
Grames wished ill to "the present American government and those who support its policies," and he stated he wanted to see "The American empire" defeated.
That is not the same as standing against legitimate interests and not the same as desiring harm to America, just the opposite, in fact.
 

No.  From the medical malpractice of the covid "vaccines" to the embrace of wild climate theories to attack standards of living to unconstrained fiat money creation to recklessly risking global thermonuclear war the present American government and those who support its policies are evil and a personal danger and I wish them ill.

I now fully support Russia's cause in the Ukraine operation.  
Ukraine is contested territory between two empires, the American Empire and the Russian Empire.
Russia is far away from me, I care about the American Empire.
The American Empire is a personal threat to me and so I want it thwarted, defeated and even crushed in every project it undertakes.

It's a spiral.   I'm not being facetious here, "the spiral of knowledge" is a thing in Objectivist epistemology.  It refers to the ever widening context of knowledge that prompts revisiting the already known and obvious for new integrations.  "Rights" are not obvious.  The context in which people are using spears for survival is not a context that will provide any need to discover patent rights.

You can own the idea of spear, if you were the truly the first to conceive of it, but only temporarily.   Property rights in real estate and other material things do not have time limits.  As Rand explained above discoveries cannot be property at all.  Between those two ends of the spectrum there is the invention, which is created by the inventor and so is eligible to be property but there is also the problem of demanding that men continue to pursue or practice falsehoods except by his permission. (where by falsehood there are the inefficient old ways the new invention renders obsolete).   No man should be able to demand such a thing forever.  An inventor deserves some recognition and property interest in an invention, but a time-unlimited property right would be unjust.  Patent rights are time-limited to attempt to balance the rights of all concerned.  Whether the duration of patent rights should 17 or 20 years is optional, much like making age 18 be the legal threshold of adulthood instead of 16, 17 or 21.   
Patents, being themselves property, can be sold and usually are.  So the Tesla example violates the right of the patent holder but just for the aspects of the car that are patented.  The idea of a car and of electricity and even an electric car are long known and no longer patented or patentable, only specific enabling new features and technologies.

I hate Q.  Fuck Q and the boomer fantasists who want to believe that the system they have lived with their whole life will somehow correct itself as they passively watch the show.   Q is for people who have spent their entire lives sitting on their ass watching television, being mentally passive.  Q is a pacifier.  Q is a distraction.  Q is a propaganda operation by an unfriendly power, your own government (probably the FBI with possible cross training and skill sharing with the CIA and DIA).  

No.  From the medical malpractice of the covid "vaccines" to the embrace of wild climate theories to attack standards of living to unconstrained fiat money creation to recklessly risking global thermonuclear war the present American government and those who support its policies are evil and a personal danger and I wish them ill.

I now fully support Russia's cause in the Ukraine operation.  
Ukraine is contested territory between two empires, the American Empire and the Russian Empire.
Russia is far away from me, I care about the American Empire.
The American Empire is a personal threat to me and so I want it thwarted, defeated and even crushed in every project it undertakes.

No.  From the medical malpractice of the covid "vaccines" to the embrace of wild climate theories to attack standards of living to unconstrained fiat money creation to recklessly risking global thermonuclear war the present American government and those who support its policies are evil and a personal danger and I wish them ill.

It is amazing to me how people that have studied philosophy and the nature of government can be so completely defenseless against low grade propaganda. "Safe and effective!"  "Safe and secure!"  Weak minds think alike.

It is amazing to me how people that have studied philosophy and the nature of government can be so completely defenseless against low grade propaganda. "Safe and effective!"  "Safe and secure!"  Weak minds think alike.

Kalandra - Brave New World (Lyric Video)
 

Yes you are. Inanimate nature does not plot or conspire to defeat and enslave you. Your attempt to equivocate being trapped in a mine with being imprisoned by a kidnapper anthropomorphizes nature by attributing intent and volition to it. Nature simply is, and being trapped in a mine is not an instance of coercion by nature.


The situation of a man trapped in the hands of a kidnapper is unjust, while a man trapped in the jaws of a crocodile just is. The way to apply the principle of the metaphysical vs. the man-made to the crocodile is not to just accept it, but also not to attempt to reason with or pray to the animal. Just kill the damn thing if you can. The nature of the crocodile is metaphysically given, but your nature as a man is also metaphysically given. You are only supposed to accept things that are beyond your power to change. Not everything metaphysically given is also immutable.

The point of Ayn Rand's essay "The Metaphysical Versus The Man-Made" is that "To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion". It is practical to deal with nature by force and men by persuasion. The crocodile is practical in attacking you, and so are you in trying to kill it. The kidnapper is being impractical in trying to dealing with men by force, but using force against the kidnapper would be practical.

Your reasoning is a fallacious use of analogy. The relation between a man and another man who is his kidnapper is not all similar to the relation between a man and the collapsed mine he is inside of, or a man and the crocodile that has him in its jaws.

Nordsteam I and Nordstream 2 gas pipelines in the Baltic have now both been sabotaged.  The most likely perpetrators are the Americans and the Ukrainians.  There is no way in hell the Russians did it, the ability to return to the pre-war gas market as Europe's primary supplier was Russia's major negotiating chip to keep their gains in the Ukraine after things settled.  They could always turn off the flow and had already turned off the flow for demonstration purposes so blowing up their own pipelines reduces Russia's political influence and is contrary to their financial needs and stated policies.
But if the Ukrainians did it, that is just another way to state that the Americans did it.  
Elections have consequences.  

Famine and war versus more mean tweets.   I'd pick the tweets every time.  Trump was the only president in decades to have not started a new war or military intervention.  Of course that was the main reason he had to go.

Famine and war versus more mean tweets.   I'd pick the tweets every time.  Trump was the only president in decades to have not started a new war or military intervention.  Of course that was the main reason he had to go.