In 1989 Pepsi struck one of the weirdest deals in history.

The Soviet Union couldn’t pay in cash, so they paid with military hardware: 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate and a destroyer. For a brief, glorious moment, PepsiCo technically owned the world’s sixth-largest navy.

The ships were rusty, decommissioned and headed straight for scrap. Pepsi never sailed them — they just took a 25 % cut of the scrap value and moved on.

Looking at the world today with all its conflicts… I’m not sure those vessels would have been scrapped so quickly. In fact, as a PepsiCo shareholder I might even have been a little disappointed when they did.

Just think about it: a private navy you could rent out to the highest bidder in today’s endless wars?

That’s not just profitable — that’s next-level diversification.

Sometimes a good investment sound completely insane on paper.

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