Today, finally, McDonald's threw open the doors to its first restaurant in Moscow.

And make no mistake, this was an event of major gastronomic proportions.

If you've been watching the news that January day in 1990, you might have wondered why

everyone was being so extra about a Mickey D's.

A feast in the time of play.

The words of Alexander Pushkin rushes greatest poets on the square that bears his name and

statue, Pushkin now contemplates, McDonald's.

This was the start of a new era of globalization.

American brands and culture would soon be found all over the world, and products from China

and Mexico would become ubiquitous in the US.

This was how we lived for 30 years.

Then in February, with global supply chains already shattered by the pandemic, Russia invaded

Ukraine and McDonald's decided it had had enough.

Coming up on today's explain what McDonald's exit west tells us about the future of globalization.

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