I wonder how many Westerners were shocked to hear that the "Russian McDonalds" is mostly the same as the regular one. Like, yeah, all the Western companies pulled out of Russia, but all the shit they were selling in Russia was made in Russia, and they didn't pull that out. You can still get Coca-Cola in Russia, it's just called Cool Cola now. But it's the exact same thing because they never really shut down the factories that made it in Russia, or take away the info on how to make it. And since the West said "fuck you" to Russia, Russia had no reason not to say "fuck you" to the West and wipe their asses with the copyright law.
The whole "Russian salary is too small for McDonalds" is true though, Russian economy was in the shitter ever since Gorby and Yeltsin destroyed the USSR because that went around for way too long for there to be anyone left to know how to do economics right. It's also why Steam in Russia became such a success and why it actually decreased piracy, because GabeN just gave a massive discount to
all the games in Russia. It's a service problem as he said. However going to McDonalds in Poland nowadays is maybe even more expensive than going to an actual restaurant. A local burger joint offers me a bigger, better and fresher burger for less than what McD offers.
The mention of how people used to drink the after shave is funny because the same thing happened in communist Poland.

I never encountered a cart like that though, or at the very least I never had to get a cart onto an escalator like that to notice, but I'll bet if I go to some supermarket that has one of those I'll notice if it has the "grip wheels" on it. The massive alcohol alleys also aren't surprising to me, we have those too. Also people in Poland are butthurt about Auchan and don't go there because they still operate in Russia, and that's
bad, because capitalism is wrong when we say it is.
I'm still wondering how exactly bringing Russian economy to this state, where regular people can barely afford basics when it was already really shit, is meant to help stop the war that's been going on for two years despite all the sanctions imposed on Russia.
Though one thing is for certain, Tucker Carlson is an idiot that is a part of the 1% and has zero idea about the 99% in Russia, US, or anywhere else in the world, and just made a fool out of himself.