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Interestingly, this is basically by design. > No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's. [0]
by codekansas 6y ago
Interestingly, this is basically by design.
> No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's. [0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree
- ardy42 6y ago>> No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's. [0] > [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexus_and_the_Olive_Tree It's worth noting that most of the wiki article is basically a list of counter-examples that proved that statement false. There have been a half-dozen wars between McDonald's-havers.
- asa4akj 6y agoand only one of those examples is before the publishing year
- jcranmer 6y agoAnd as noted in the Wikipedia article, this was disproved within months by NATO involvement in the Yugoslav Wars. It should also be noted that there were plenty of experts who would tell you that the world is now too economically intertwined to be able to support any major war between major powers... in 1914. Economic integration preventing global conflict has been disproven time and again in history.