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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsZelensky says Ukraine has gotten Europe to agree to cut Russia off from SWIFT
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Alec Luhn
@ASLuhn
.@ZelenskyyUa says Ukraine has gotten Europe to agree to cut Russia off from SWIFT. "This is an important victory. It means billions & billions in losses for Russia. That's the cost of its backstabbing invasion."
(Germany reportedly supports a "targeted" partial SWIFT cutoff)
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11:00 AM · Feb 26, 2022
Bayard
(22,099 posts)msfiddlestix
(7,282 posts)The Fog of War seems to include a ton of misinformation designed to confuse and inflate/deflate hope or outcomes.
last thing we need right now.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Ohio Joe
(21,757 posts)The post with link is here somewhere, I cant find it now but that has happened. Ive not seen anything on Germany yet.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)Ourselves. It will be a major victory for humanity in the 21st-century. Of course it could easily go the other way
PortTack
(32,778 posts)cadoman
(792 posts)Now we need to get them gas or some means of heat. Any ideas?
HUAJIAO
(2,387 posts)gab13by13
(21,360 posts)just a guess that maybe fossil fuels are exempt.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)The more we can fuck with their financial institutions the better.
OnDoutside
(19,962 posts)may be far more effective, according to a James O'Brien interviewée....
Yesterday's sanctions against Russian banks are more powerful than excluding them from the SWIFT system, argues financial expert Frances Coppola.
@mrjamesob | @Frances_Coppola https://t.co/0YrSpQcstz
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peggysue2
(10,832 posts)That Hungary had finally given the nod and that their opposition to a SWIFT cutoff was the last stumbling block. More pressure on Putin and the elimination of another right-wing talking point/screech.
Hope the info is accurate.
Ohio Joe
(21,757 posts)If our NATO allies are on board, we need to stand with them.