We now have seven banks in russia cut off. And we have people in russia who are going to suffer because of it, and we have russia surely looking for a solution. Do you think there is a world in which the folks at swift ple in the in the e u, and the us? Get together and say, we are going to kick those two big russian banks off. They're done. Or is that just not going to happen.? You're punishing them, but you're actually punishing yourself. Dilemma. To levy these sanctions, the quick how quickly they did it, and how severe they've been, and how they keep adding on more to the
The US and EU are denying a handful of Russian banks access to SWIFT, a key tool in the global financial system.
This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, and hosted by Noel King.
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