The walls are pockmarked from shrapnel and the golden arches are melted at Ukraine’s first McDonald’s. But the restaurant, a symbol of the country’s Western aspirations, still serves as a refuge in Kyiv.
I find it very curious how russia does some interesting things like that. One of the few places that invest heavily in sovereignty and makes resistance to us brands. A pity they kind of do that for the wrong reasons and are imperialist themselves
yeah it’s wild how they can despise the west… but also, want to be the west themselves? they despise capitalists… and have hollowed out their own country with crony capitalism… they’re a failed petrostate who are losing a war to a tiny neighbor, 1000-1600 dead every day, going on longer than WW1.
oh and they have the second largest pile of nuclear weapons in the world (or first, depending on whose numbers you trust)…
I find it very curious how russia does some interesting things like that. One of the few places that invest heavily in sovereignty and makes resistance to us brands. A pity they kind of do that for the wrong reasons and are imperialist themselves
What’s interesting about this? MacDonald’s left after the fullscale invasion, and someone bought the assets to make a cheap kickoff.
It is not about sovereignty, they try to preserve Moscow as “rich and just like the West”, cause it’s the place foreigners visit.
You really think someone bought the assets?
yeah it’s wild how they can despise the west… but also, want to be the west themselves? they despise capitalists… and have hollowed out their own country with crony capitalism… they’re a failed petrostate who are losing a war to a tiny neighbor, 1000-1600 dead every day, going on longer than WW1.
oh and they have the second largest pile of nuclear weapons in the world (or first, depending on whose numbers you trust)…