@0x00 @nick @terryenglish thanks for incidentally reminding me about that one time Pepsi bought a bunch of the Soviet navy in exchange for syrup
> As a result in the spring of 1989, Pepsi and the Soviet Union signed a deal that will go down in history. Pepsi Co. came into ownership of 17 old Soviet submarines, a frigate, a cruiser, and a destroyer. This for a brief time meant that a company was in the top 10 rankings of the world as a military power, more specifically the 6th most powerful military power in 1989.
https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-pepsi-became-a-global-military-power-777f8fb62dd3