This shit might dangerously soon be enough for Putin to just say "yolo". Also, insane how the entire world is quickly responding to Russia, while noone gave a shit about the US killing literally millions of people. Or the Saudis killing more innocent people right this moment than Russia is. And they will be allowed to continue to do so. It looks like the US hegemony is getting only stronger, not weaker, no matter what it does.

  • Shoegazer [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Why would countries be sanctioned for simply utilizing an alternative system to SWIFT? It is their right in the free marketplace, by the west’s own line of reasoning.

    They would be sanctioned for cooperating with Russia and China like Belarus allowing Russians to invade from their borders

    • s0ykaf [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      They would be sanctioned for cooperating with Russia and China like Belarus allowing Russians to invade from their borders

      the stronger the block, the weaker the sanctions

      besides, allying ourselves with china would be way better than it was with the USSR (with all respect to our fallen comrades, i'm not really talking in terms of ideology here, but trade potential)

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      For... utilising a bank telecommunication system? Extremely unlikely. Especially since it could be done in parallel. Set up CIPS, continue allowing SWIFT communications. Something happens to SWIFT, congrats, it's meaningless, just use the other one. The national equivalent of your wifi going down while you're watching a video on your phone so you just switch to 5G.