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.
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)…
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)…