Explaining war to an american: So imagine a Mcdonalds 
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The current yearly burger consumption of America is 9,343,161,756Ib of hamburger
For context, there are 38,229,212 Ukrainians
Lol even KyivPost does the "How to talk to a burgerlander" meme
How many football fields is that? 
ANYTHING BUT THE METRIC SYSTEM 
25,000 missiles and drones have the same amount of energy to power 7,600 Cybertrucks
160,000 buildings were damaged in Gaza (a city as big as Detroit) in the last year, there are 190,000 franchised fast food establishments in the whole of the U.S.
they really can only measure things in burg
b o r g o r
Conclusion: Russia should fire missiles at every McDonalds in the US
Are they saying that Russia has launched too many missiles or that USA has too few McDonald's?
Yes
Waiting on 
to create rocket-deployed McDonald's
xDDD now do cambodia north korea or vietnam
"Every missile they launched is the same".
It's like the Israelis claiming "Hamas launched thousands of missiles at Israel" when most of them are intercepted and the ones that get through barely cause any damage to property let alone life.
Meanwhile, Israel is dropping 2000lbs bombs on Gaza. Entire buildings turned into rubble, massive craters.
For context,
ah, it's for context
that makes it not one of the funniest things I've seen then 
Okay but what if I expected there to be like 4 times as many McDonald's in the US? That actually does recontextualize how I think about Burgerland.
There's actually significantly more Subway restaurants
They're weeds
wow is that true? do people go to subway that much?
is subway like the biggest minimum-wage employer? are subway employees the ripe vanguard of the revolution?
The answer is basically subway takes very little space, very little staffing. Super cheap to run and setup.
I think cheaper franchising costs is part of it
and yet, McDonald's has killed way more people than any Russian missile. probably a single McDonald's by itself has killed more people than half of those missiles combined.
Ukraines war effort is like a broken sundae machine and crimea is as out of reach as a burger joint without a drive-thru
Logistics machine 🅱️roke
This reminds me of that BadEmpanada video titled something like "explaining the Iraq War for Americans" where he used burgers as a metaphor for everything the US stole from Iraq, except BadEmpanada did it as a joke.
Now do Gaza.
Unlimited mcdonalds on the west
Since 2000, Israel has launched 1 trillion chicken mcnuggets worth of explosives at Gaza.
Makes me wonder where in the continental US is furthest from a McDonalds. Looks like some random field in...Wyoming? I don't know US states. Surprised about a lot of the South West though, I thought the desert there would be a lot less inhabited.
Also makes me think about Bigfoot sightings. Look at all these McDonalds. Where's Mr Foot meant to be hiding when he's probably no more than an hour away from Maccas at any given time?
Surely the furthest from a McDonalds have to be in either Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon, right? Like there's so many McDonalds' in America that you'd have to go to a national park to find someplace that didn't have one.
I just assume that Americans have McDonalds and KFC and stuff located in the visitor's centre in all their national parks, and if not, they would certainly have some on the highways going past them.
Probably Alaska but that feels like cheating
All other arguments aside, if you are going to compare the two this way, if the US has 9x the land mass as Ukraine, then why is the US sized the same as Ukraine in the image?
Surely it's not to make the image misleading.
Also, McDonalds is a public toilet space, imho
I don't think the US is only ~5,500,000 km2
Yeah, uh, that is what happens when you go to war with a major country.
Very impressive, now let's see Paul Allenskyy's strike locations
What if Putin bombed all our McDonalds? The horrors! The horrors!
What.
It’s wild how the us media “culture” has withered so drastically that i am nostalgic for the days when they aired bold ideas such as “fast food is bad for you”. There was a time where nickelodeon wouldn’t air any shows and display a message that told your porcine children to go outside.
Instead of taking that further fast food is a-okay now. Its fine to be constantly consuming media, and “serious” news outlets are rehashing 20 year old internet memes
Kyiv post moment
I hate america and all americans i wish we would all drop dead
A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now. Except hamburgers. We can compare it to hamburgers.
how big is a berder assembly store compared to a missile?