The kind of decision-making architecture she hints at leads us to compare it to a pathology we call “Empire Envy.” While discussing the general issue with Claude, we got into analyzing the nature of our own relationship, as a kind of “two-mind think tank.” Many in the Biden administration and some of Rand’s own think tankers were theorizing about how to cripple the Putin’s economy and Balkanize Russia. If this is the case, would it be wrong to qualify Rand’s representation of that decision-making climate as disinformation? No one could “honestly” claim that Johnson took the initiative on his own or that the US could possibly not have authorized it.