> With the exception of Russia and Georgia, it's said that no two nations that have McDonald's have ever gone to war. > A lot of people with no understanding o

> With the exception of Russia and Georgia, it's said that no two nations that have McDonald's have ever gone to war. > A lot of people with no understanding of history laughed when it was brought up that opening a McDonald's in North Korea was an important part of the Trump-Kim summit. But diplomats saw it as a watershed moment. That's the first time I hear that correlation, and it's amazing. I could see that opening a McDonald's in NK would be symbolic, but not at that one-layer-deeper level. It's the kind of freakonomics insight I'll be able to drop at conversations for a long time!