On A Lighter But Still Serious Note...

 ... I am always serious with anything concerning food. Jackson Hinkle goes to KFC in Russia. 

OK, let me go on a record here: be those times when McDonald's was still in Russia or now, when Vkusno i Tochka took its place, Russian fast food fries have never been better than the ones in the US Macs. I don't know what's the deal with it. Sandwiches themselves? Sure, Big Mack in Russia was actually better than in the US, but not fries. But Russians, for some reason, do love KFC better. Yeah, try to get them out of Russia. In related news, as usual journo BSers have been debunked in less than 48 hours. 

Korean automakers Kia and Hyundai are not going to leave the Russian market. This was stated by official representatives of companies in Russia to Izvestia. They added that the work of dealerships and service areas continues as normal, and the maintenance of cars and the fulfillment of warranty obligations goes according to the regulations. Earlier, the Telegram channel Mash wrote about the closure of Kia and Hyundai in Russia. According to him, manufacturers began to sell the remains of cars from Russian warehouses with a margin of one million rubles to fill the vacant places with Chinese cars. It was noted that some Hyundai stores have already changed their signage to BAIC. Journalists also reported on the mass dismissal of employees from former manufacturers' salons. At the same time, it was noted that the company was going to continue servicing Korean models, but at an inflated price.

So, here is from the Navalny's type of people. They should apply for work at CNN or WSJ or something--they qualify.  

Back to food, yes, you can get hash browns in Russia too, but it is not the same. And, of course, I still didn't have the chance to find in Russia chicken fried steak. People say they serve them somewhere. Maybe next time, hopefully. Meanwhile, here is another video from rural Russia by an American. 

The only thing which is not entirely correct is that the stream of Germans to Russia is rather significant. Plus, this type of chicken is not the mainstay of Russian meals. Generally, the food price growth was rather moderate.

Goes Extremely Well...

 ... with James Kunstler's superb piece today:

The business model is broken. We’re a shadow of the industrial economy that won a great war and enjoyed a boisterous peace. You can’t replace ball bearing factories with theme parks and hedge funds. Sorry. The full faith and credit of the USA is not embodied in those frivolities, so our money is losing its mojo fast. But get this: we will go on. This is not the end of the world or the end of history. It is the end of an era. Believe it or not, the economy will fix itself, it just won’t be what it was in 1957. It won’t be what the techno-supremacists think, either. (You need a dependable electric grid to run all those server farms and the apps they serve, and the AI supposedly looming.) It will fix itself because when things fail, as they are doing now, a lot of opportunities will open up to do things differently, even very differently.

    When the chain stores fail along with their twelve-thousand-mile supply lines, Americans will figure out how to find stuff, make stuff, move stuff, and sell stuff at a smaller scale, maybe back on your Main Street (if it’s still there). There will be a lot less stuff, of course. But it may be enough stuff, and some of you will be busy making stuff of some kind. Imagine an economy where practically everybody has a useful role to play. Do you know how much more important it is to lead a purposeful, active life than to be lost in leisure and anomie with more stuff than you know what to do with? Which is where we’re at now, even for many who are statistically “poor.”

But what is what goes extremely well, and on a lighter note, I may add. Well, get a load of this)))

And, BTW, another argument in favor of not reading all those TG channels, with the exception of official or reputable ones. I like Jackson Hinkle but he should have checked his "sources" yesterday when claiming this:

The bloody tactical meat-grinder for VSU at Vremeevsky Ledge (or salient) is just that--all three attempts at attacking have been repulsed and Makarovka village is a classic grey zone village. As reported by Russian MoD:

Сегодня в Минобороны сообщили, что российские бойцы отразили три атаки ВСУ в районе Времевского выступа. При этом противник потерял более 120 военнослужащих, два танка и три боевые бронированные машины.

Translation: Today, the Ministry of Defense reported that Russian fighters repelled three attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the area of ​​the Vremevsky salient. At the same time, the enemy lost more than 120 servicemen, two tanks and three armored fighting vehicles.

So much for "breaking through", eh?