Posted on 03/21/2022 4:59:41 PM PDT by FarCenter
Yes. Friedman is a moronic hack. Always has been.
All Friedman has to do is open his mouth to get disproved.
His is the intellectual level worshiped by the Left. It fits them to a “T”.
Good point. And was disproved when Russia took Crimea in 2014.
It was a pop ripoff of one of R.J. Rummel’s observations of governments of a representative type.
Russia has Uncle Vanya’s Burgers now.
Heck they had McDonalds in the Balkans in the 90s. Friedman is a clown, a total buffoon, always wrong.
One of the Great Idiots of the Western World.
Friedman has always been an idiot.
Norman Angell made the same argument in 1910 in The Great Illusion that due to the interconnectedness of their societies, there would never again be a Great War in Europe.
Friedman struck gold with “From Beirut to Jerusalem”, it’s an excellent and insightful read. I suspect he either suffered a significant head injury or started believing his own press shortly afterwards because just about everything he’s said or written afterwards is clichéd garbage.
As for McDonalds, I think a lot more should be written about what market forces caused the Clown to abandon millions to billions of dollars of investment to stay on the good side of the global elite, and what they got in return.
What about Starbucks, Burger King, and Dairy Queen?
“Friedman struck gold with “From Beirut to Jerusalem”, it’s an excellent and insightful read. I suspect he either suffered a significant head injury or started believing his own press shortly afterwards because just about everything he’s said or written afterwards is clichéd garbage.”
1989 When that book came out. I read it. Nothing Friedman has done since then has been worthwhile. BUT they love his arse in DC and NYC and that’s all he cares about. He has been stupid and pompous for years.
When you’re living off your wife’s millions, you grow into a brain dead idea. I call this the “John Kerry Syndrome.”
It was disproved when NATO bombed Serbia in 1999.
Iraq has McDonald’s.
idea = idiot.
While this is false, The entire west has been in the process of “cancelling” russia. So this idea in that sense, is indeed true
Taco Bell will win the Franchise Wars.
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