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Those who were around in the early days of the news megathread may remember Pedro Castillo, the left-leaning leader of Peru who was deposed in December 2022. He was replaced by Dina Boluarte, the first woman to be President of Peru, who described herself as a progressive but afterwards routinely sided with Peruvian conservatives and American interests. To say she was unpopular is an understatement of titanic proportions - she descended to such lows that she was, at one point, the single most unpopular leader on the planet. As with most deeply unpopular leaders that side with the West, she kept power for a bafflingly long time.
However, on October 10th, after a period of protests against the government, she was impeached and removed by Peru’s Congress in a unanimous vote. José Jerí was sworn in as the new President, who was previously the President of the Congress and is a member of a centrist Peruvian party. The government is trying the classic strategy: keep doing the same thing as before, and sacrifice an unpopular figure - here, Boluarte - in the hopes that this appeases the crowd.
Is this strategy working? It doesn’t really seem to be - protests are not only continuing, but strengthening, as it is clear that neoliberalism will not reformed and the brutality by police will not stop (there was very recently a high-profile case in which a musician, Mauricio Ruiz, was murdered). Controversies surrounding Jerí, including allegations of SA, are already being reported. If Jerí is deposed, the next person in line to try their hand at ruling will be the former army general Roberto Chiabra, who would be the ninth President in less than a decade.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
: “Argentina is fighting for its life… Argentina is fighting for its life. They have nothing. They have no money. Argentina is dying. They have no money, they have nothing. I may even like the… President there, but don’t try to tell me they’re doing well. They’re dying, alright? They’re dying.”edit - yes he did say it. Trump’s brain is so great.
“Argentina’s fighting for its life, young lady, you don’t know anything about it,” Trump told a reporter on Air Force One in response to a question. “They’re fighting for their life. Nothing’s benefiting Argentina.”
“They’re fighting for their life. You understand what that means? They have no money, they have no anything. They’re fighting so hard to survive. If I can help them survive in a free world — I happen to like the president of Argentina, I think he’s trying to do the best he can. But don’t make it sound like they’re doing great.”
I like how he accused the reporter of saying that Argentina is doing great, when the reporter just asked him about bailing out another country when he should be doing MAGA. Obviously, Trump doesn’t even conceive of not bailing out a president of a foreign country that he likes, of course that is just assumed, so he interprets even the slight pushback on the bailout as saying that Argentina is doing great. His brain just cannot compute that they are asking him about hypocrisy. And he is correct, “MAGA” is just whatever the Republicans want to do in any specific moment in time.
“MAGA” is just whatever the Republicans want to do in any specific moment in time.
He just kind of definitionally is doing “MAGA” by existing and holding power, don’t’cha know.
Obviously he is wrong, it’s a country with 46 million people, with vast resources, exploited by the U.S, run by its puppet and under crippling foreign currency debt. Instead of making it so they no longer have this debt, he wants to bail out domestic and foreign capitalists. I hate that people frame it as America prioritizing Argentina over Americans, this is wrong, that is something which only applies to Israel and to much lesser extent other Western nations, only Israel (and few others) get completely unconditional transfers.
at least it does fly in the face of ‘argentinean economic miracle’ propaganda
Chairman trump caring for the poor
RAND REPORT - Accept China has won. Best case scenario is avoiding a century of humiliation
clarify U.S. objectives in the rivalry with language that explicitly rejects absolute versions of victory and accepts the legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party.
each side must accept, in ways that are deeply ingrained and broadly shared among decision-making officials, that some degree of modus vivendi must necessarily be part of the relationship
each side must accept the essential political legitimacy of the other.
state that it does not support Taiwan independence, seek a permanent separation across the Straits, or oppose peaceful unification
creating the maximum incentive for Beijing to pursue gradual approaches to realizing its ultimate goal
Reunification. Taiwan surrendered its stranglehold on chips and became a chip itself to be traded accordingly.
[The US should] balance its commitments to Taiwan with leveraging its influence to ensure Taiwan’s actions do not escalate tensions with China… use its potential leverage over Taiwan to limit its activities that upset the status quo.
This would have been a great strategy for the US to adopt 10 years ago.
This has to be one of the coolest fucking things I’ve read in a very long time: Everything we know about the Louvre jewellery heist
The BBC:
The theft has caused a political outcry in France, with Macron calling the raid “an attack on our history”
The louvre is a triumphant celebration of an attack on the histories of like a third of the globe…
u know why the pyramids are in egypt?
the british museum was too smol
Oh god. This is gold. I’m snaggin’ it.
pls do it’s collectivisation
Political outcry from the right I bet. They just love that protofascist napoleon
You can’t just say this and not elaborate
napoleon was the one that ended the french revolution. A proper pos placed there by the rich. He turned a more or less democratic state into this centralized shitshow we know now. He brought back slavery and created the black code.
The “republic” which Napoleon overthrew was one that was already completely recaptured by royalist factions. He didn’t kill the revolution, it was already dead. That “democratic state” was a corrupt dysfunctional state akin to the Russian interim government after the February revolution, it was going to collapse and be taken over because it was non-functioning and conspiring with the revanchists.
Sorry are you comparing napoleon and lenin?
Every country in the 1800s and 1700s could be called fascist then, but that’s obviously completely wrong and ahistorical. Fascism is not vaguely authoritarian leadership or bad things being done, again that’s stupid.
Besides, France under Napoleon was a lot more progressive than any of the other European monarchies so it’s weird to single him out .The French revolution was dead a long time before Napoleon, the decaying corpse of it was somewhat preserved under Napoleon
Sorry mate i dont want to be rude but being from the region, from an anticolonial pov, i have a very bad outlook on him. For me he created the institutions that are oppressing people to this day.
I mean he re-instated the black code, invaded haiti, looted egypt, and so on. Not every country in the 1800 were engaging in colonisation.
A lot were on the receiving end lol
“Vaguely authoritarian”?
Go tell that to the african he enslaved.
That isn’t fascism, i hate to break it to you. We don’t call queen Victoria a fascist even though she did horrible things, same with Napoleon. Fascism is qualitatively different from regular capitalist states, not just a quantitative ramping up of authoritarian tendencies
He also pioneered the use of
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i mean the sarkozy son, who said “kill-em-all” about palestinian, is a big fan.
If I as a communist go out and say “I love Adam Smith”, 300 years after he died, does that make Adam Smith a communist?
That would be a sick ass power
I mean Adam Smith hated landlord and his writing have been heavily edited to suit the neolib.
Also adam smith didn’t invade haiti did he
“Also adam smith didn’t invade haiti did he”
So what? That’s not my point. My point is someone with some select political opinions declaring their support for a person who died hundreds of years ago doesn’t mean that person aligns with their beliefs
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??? Wild misreading of history here if you think Napoleon was a reactionary force
This is about Napoleon III fyi, who is absolutely a protofascist. The crown jewels that were stolen belonged to his wife, not the OG Napoleon.
Ah thought it was original Napoleon mb
too late. the can of worms has been unleashed
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What do you mean? He is glorified by french official storytelling but he was a colonialist who re-instated slavery and consolidated a bourgeois state.
Sorry not a fan of the french “republic”. They throw grenades at the crowd and kills arabs.
He was a bourgeois revolutionary who smashed apart the feudal states. He’s historically progressive, in the same way that a figure like Abraham Lincoln was - in that he moves history dialectically forward destroyed revanchist and aristocratic feudal systems
He also violently suppressed leftist movements, that’s kinda important too.
That’s not in contradiction with them being historically progressive
So did Abraham Lincoln and Stalin. Doesn’t mean they weren’t historically progressive overall
That can be true but he still re-instated slavery, upheld the french colonial empire, and founded murderous institutions who are still killing brown people nowadays.
Sorry but I won’t admire the OG imperialist.
if you think Napoleon was a reactionary force
Was he not? My general understanding of him is that he was an opportunistic general who usurped the First French Republic and crowned himself Emperor of the French, which was effectively an absolute monarchy just like the Ancien Regime, just without the Bourbons in charge.
So what’s the Hexbear Party Line on Napoleon the Tragedy (I presume we don’t like Napoleon the Farce)?
intro to the 18th brumaire, he was a progressive force (bourgeois) but not a progressive force (proletarian) that would have ushered in socialism
his prose is goated
He created the modern capitalist state and consolidated bourgeois rule with an iron hand.
He also destroyed like 17 different monarchies that were then replaced by republics
I know I still live in one.
It’s not great.
I meaan, didn’t the first one reinstated slavery?
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All are from the 19th century, and once belonged to French royalty or imperial rulers.
They implicitly state the jewels were stolen. Load-bearing “belonged to.” Who did they “belong to” before the imperialist pigs?
Clearly the jewels came from the local diamond mines that are indigenous to France…
probably some monarch that stole them from people who stole them from somewhere else. jewels are common spoils of war that trade hands/are stolen/coercively taken as part of exploitative peace treaties multiple times. not to excuse french (or british) imperial theft, more that establishing providence of ‘treasure’ items like this is often harder than providence of ‘cultural’ artifacts like stolen totem poles or Indigenous art
Around 60 investigators are working on the case and prosecutors said their theory is that the robbers were under orders for a criminal organisation.
“We investigated thoughtfully and the conclusion of the investigation was that it was a robbery”
What we’ve learned over the decades of our service is that when a crime has been committed, it’s almost always a criminal that did it.
This kind of fine investigation is the reason why we want each police officer to have at least two figures in their IQ
My issue with such theft is that it ends up in some private collection owned by rich people. At least gold and cash can be laundered more easily.
I really hope a movie gets made of this one day
Louvre Actually
Dr. Strangelouvre
The French and They’re FuriousO Brother, Where Art Now?
nice one
when you try to hit that 18th brumaire date, but consult with ai
GTA V ass level robbery
I bet it’s trump. No shit. He’s gonna crown himself like napoleon
My head canon is Gorka did it to try and crown Trump
Good news, the Republicans won’t even need to rig anything for 2028!
‘I am not done’ - Kamala Harris tells BBC she may run for president again
Govt shut down, people not getting paid healthcare prices gonna skyrocket, and a white house section ballroom is being made in tribute to a pedo. Not even veep could make this more ridiculous
It’s still shutdown wtf?
I’m genuinely astonished that this isn’t breaking multiple laws. This is a historic building isn’t it? Why isn’t it protected? Is any building protected by law? Does the US not have a “listed” status for buildings like we have in the UK where the listed buildings have an absurd amount of protection from changes due to historical significance?
Sidenote: He’s not making these changes to the building and then leaving it. He considers this his house now.
America has made it quite clear that the President can do whatever he wants
an ever expanding Great White House set to take over central Washington D.C. in the near future. everywhere you look; White House
Just trying to imagine a prime minister attempting to get part of 10 Downing Street demolished to do a huge new extension and the drama this would cause would result in an election 100%, you do NOT fuck with historically significant listed buildings.
We frankly don’t give much of a shit about our history, unless he wants to tear the entire WH down it wouldn’t be much of a stir.
There’s a Yes, Prime Minister episode on these lines.
Laws only protect the bourgeoisie. They aren’t subject to it.
They very much are subject to laws that protect history and culture over here because that history and culture is viewed as directly tied to the longevity of the country thus far. Protecting harm to history and culture is protecting the bourgeoisie, even from other bourgeoisie that don’t realise this. They don’t get just destroy historic buildings here, if they attempted to they would be forced to reconstruct it, with exactly the same materials and construction methods as originally existed in order to make it exactly as it was. No one gets to fuck around with this.
you don’t have the “but nobody will stop me” clause?
Naw. It’s also deeply cultural, you can’t do this to buildings here, half the population would be pissed about it. I’m not just talking mildly upset they would be out for blood. It’s deeply deeply offensive to harm historic architectural landmarks, they are part of what makes the identity of the population here. Half the country is filled with ruins whether it’s stones dating back to druids or castles from the medieval period. Almost everyone would find it deeply disrespectful. There’s a real culture of historical and cultural preservation. Even people that would usually be right wing reactionaries would not be ok with it, nobody would be.
I mean, the UK actually has a history, as sordid as it can be, while the US is some shitty settler colony with a criminal record. This is a boomerang effect of sorts where the settler contempt and disregard for Indigenous history leads to a particular tacky settler also not giving a shit about settler myth-building either.
Plus, the east wing was only build in 1902 with major renovations by FDR in 1942, so it’s only around 123 years old.
I really hope construction stalls enough that the next president either cancels or completely changes Trump’s original plan so it’s just some partially constructed clusterfuck.
next president
lol
lmao LAWS? what are you talking about, “laws”
I once did some work at Wadham College at Oxford. I was told it’s one of the “newer” colleges there (and I was in awe of how beautiful it was) and it still is older than the oldest university in the US IIRC. American buildings are just on a different time scale than other places.
(Also I don’t think the east wing is part of the original White House)
Laws? what are those? what the strongman says must be
A lot of American laws on historical sites only limit how public funds are used. The ball room is being privately funded.
Hit the gas a little harder, Volvo driver. You know you want to!
I’m gonna tell my grandkids this was a photo of the residence of the last Fuhrer of the American Reich being demolished to make way for the John Brown National Memorial.
KKKracKKKer house down!
Somebody should do a psyop and convince the demolisher to take down the rest of it while they’re at it
There’s a dang cheeto bulldozing the white house
from Former Finnish president’s memoir:
On the phone with Putin in early 2022, days before Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, Niinistö informed him of Finland’s decision to apply for NATO membership. Putin, though calm, said it was a mistake and hinted that the US would dominate Finland’s military.
“I will still be the one appointing the generals here.” Niinistö responded. Putin laughed.
Chinese branch of Nexperia revolts against the illegal Dutch nationalisation.
70% of the production capacity of Nexperia is based in China btw.
The Dutch basically ruined their own company and reputation for brownie points from America.
Russian blogs are saying that if the US sends Tomahawks to Ukraine, Russia should send Kalibr missiles to Venezuela or Colombia.
The Australian military is claiming that a Chinese fighter dropped flares “very close” to a plane.
Wow, that sounds dangerous and alarming. Let’s see what this is about: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-20/federal-politics-live-blog-october-20/105910558#live-blog-post-233427
There’s been another potentially dangerous encounter between the Australian Defence Force and the Chinese military
Our glorious defense force vs their barbarous military
Australian P8 plane was doing a routine maritime surveillance patrol in the South China Sea when it was approached by a People’s Liberation Army fighter jet which released flares — two of them “very close” to the Australian surveillance plane.
emphasis mine.
This is about spying on those fucking islands isn’t it.
Fucks sake mate, the ADF would absolutely be telling Chinese spy planes to fuck right off if they were flying over terrioral islands.
Just be even handed and fair about it for Christ’s sake. You were spying on them, this isn’t aggression, you were spying on them.
the pearl clutching I’ve seen on social media is about the dastardly chinese pilots being unsafe by firing flares near the poor widdle ozzie pilots just minding their own business in chinese airspace
The paracel islands or whatever are technically disputed but it’s
a) between Vietnam and China
b) China has occupied them for like 50 years now
c) The only reason China didn’t get them after ww2 was because the usa didn’t want the darstardly reds to have a better position to defend their shipping
d) the only reason their is any contest atm is because the usa wants to be able to blockade China in a war
e) Australia has no fucking business being halfway across the world spying on some islands disputed between two States neither of which has asked for their aid.
I think it’s funnier to tell westerners mad about this that it’s just a skill issue and australia (or the US when it’s a US plane) should train their pilots better if they’re worried about not being able to match the chinese pilot’s maneuvers safely
I think that’s not a very insightful thing to take from this.
The sort of chest beating that militaries do at borders or contested regions is generally pretty restrained, performance for your soldiers, your populous, the other guys. Nobody tries to hurt each other because there would be issues then.
This is just the Australian military finding something to look justified over, and the Chinese military doing some performance to say “look how great we are”.
I wouldn’t bother paying too much attention to the theatre
i will never pretend that flipping an imperialist the bird while flying a jet at mach 4 isn’t cool
when russian pilots were “peeing” on NATO pilots and drones by dropping fuel on them redditors were soooo mad
This is pretty standard stuff. No one violated anyone’s territory or airspace, pilots got to have some fun and do a friendly “plane wave”. Flares are a new addition. As long as they don’t hit anything, it’s fine.
Even if they DID hit something, it wouldnt be the first time a Chinese fighter jet has collided with a NATO spyplane over disputed territory.
It would blow over eventually assuming there wasn’t evidence of fhe Chinese pilots intentionally downing a plane or engaging it with weapons.
It’s more akin to those fistfights between the PLA and Indian Army in disputed mountain ranges where both sides agree to stick to melee combat so no one escalates shit too quickly.
The paracel islands are China’s in all matters but legal, but yes. My goal was to highlight the nonsense, not cause alarm.
International law is kinda stupid on matters of territory, privileging colonial claims over factual ones. Perhaps a better example would be Australia’s furor over chinese research stations (and probably some “research stations”) in the ridiculous segment of Antarctica the government claims by way of a stupid treaty signed by 7? nations.
https://xcancel.com/abierkhatib/status/1981455247588675780
Israeli doctors were giving chemotherapy to healthy Palestinian detainees, making them think they had cancer.
Emad Al Saraj is one of the cases. After his release, doctors ran tests and told him he didn’t have cancer.
But at what cost?
Colombian President Gustavo Petro and his family are sanctioned under the Magnitsky Act by the United States.
President Gustavo Petro: “I’m not threatening, but anyone who reads the history of Colombia over two centuries will know that when our people are attacked, we hide in the mountains and take up arms. We will not take a single step backward, and we will never kneel before an enemy."
- Telegram
CW SA/R*PE
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre's posthumous memoir Nobody's Girl claims that
she was forced to have sex with three powerful politicians . Although, for legal reasons, the book does not identify them by name, social media users have been able to identify them as:
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Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, who, whileremoved her, “savagely” beat her and choked her until she passed out.
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New Mexico governor, Bill Richardson.
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George Mitchell, former Maine senator.
All three have previously been named by Giuffre, who was found dead in her Australian home in April.
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This morning I was renewing my visa in the Chinese Consulate in New York and on all the screens, on a loop, were various different documentaries about all the various different times where the Dalai Lama was appointed or otherwise officially sanctioned by the Ming or Qing dynasties. One of them even explicitly said, “proving that the right to appoint the Dalai Lama rests with the authority of the centeal government, a principle upheld in modern times.” Rather amusing, the CPC is obviously preparing for the current Dalai Lama’s death and is laying the groundwork for when they appoint a new one. I imagine we’ll have an Avignon Pope situation, with at least two Dalai Lamas, one in Tibet and one in exile in India.
That is 100% the plan. As a matter of fact, something similar already happened with the Panchen Lama. According to Wikipedia:
The Dalai Lama named Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the 11th incarnation of the Panchen Lama on 14 May 1995. The Chinese government insisted that the 11th Panchen Lama has to be chosen via the golden urn. In selecting a name, lottery numbers were drawn from the Golden Urn. Chinese authorities named Gyancain Norbu as the search committee’s choice on 11 November 1995.Gedhun Choekyi Nyima has not been observed by an independent party since 17 May 1995. The Chinese government claims he is living a “normal private life”. Tibetans and human rights groups continue to campaign for his release.
I’m also going to guess that the Dalai Lama is coincidentally going to get reincarnated in the Tibetan gusano community this time around. There’s no way that their going to let China get both of them this time around.
It’s gonna peter out when the Dalai croaks imo, however discredited he is he had a period of official status and substantial support based on the ambition to balkanize the PRC. a newborn emigré one will have over a decade before they can even make public appearances, nevermind the project of tibetan independence is basically dead
China is the blueprint on how to handle religion. You allow organized religion to exist through a secular government while quietly pushing the scale behind the scenes so all the clergy and “reincarnated” lamas are coincidentally ones who submit to the party line while churches that refuse to toe the line like Falun Gong get the hammer dropped on them.
When Italian communists seize power, the trick is to not abolish the Catholic church, but to force the cardinals to elect a new pope with papal name Marxus Engelus Leninus Stalinus I.
I’m not disagreeing but Falun Gong is more than just a dissenting church, it’s a death cult funded by the CIA
I don’t even know why this suddenly got into my feed, but it is quite funny;
spoiler
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Andrey Biletskiy, commander of the Azov Corps, complained that all McDonald’s employees in Ukraine are exempt from military conscription. The # of MacDonald’s restaurants in Ukraine has increased in recent years. They can get low cost labor while other businesses say they can’t
2;
Even on a day when much of Kyiv is without electricity, there’s light - and optimism - here at the Kyiv Zoo. @McDonalds has just opened its 50th restaurant in Kyiv, running on a generator and full of families looking for warmth, food, and connection.
Opening a new restaurant during a war is more than a business decision — it’s a statement of resilience, hope, and community. In the face of challenges, McDonald’s continues to show what it means to keep going. I’m lovin it - and inspired by it 💙💛
