Some familiar guidance from flight attendants: “always put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others.” It's a healthy dose of reality, clarifying the fact that not helping yourself first in an emergency puts others in danger. This maxim also applies to a brewing face-off between the Trump Administration and Maduro's Venezuela. What's needed is a Congressional exercise in self-reflective pragmatism: pass legislation that will end anonymous shell companies and dismantle the trade-based money laundering empires hiding in plain sight.
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