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Old proverb: "Always be nice to people when on your way up the ladder. You'll be meeting them again on your way down the ladder." Seems sanctioned Venezuelan o
by simonblack 5y ago
Old proverb: "Always be nice to people when on your way up the ladder. You'll be meeting them again on your way down the ladder."
Seems sanctioned Venezuelan oil is now to be non-sanctioned. If I was Venezuela, my retort would be "Fuck Off!"
- iancmceachern 5y agoThis seems like a weird view of the situation. It's not as if the US is on its way down the ladder in this moment. It's just that Venezuela is now the lesser of the evils, not that they became less evil, but Russia became more evil.
- nocsi 5y agoYou’re taking the proverb too literally. Might be more that the US has recently participated in undermining and overthrowing the Venezuelan regime. You can’t just fck over a country one day and try to do business the next