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Originally Posted by devo22
I will say this, I have a lot of friends in Germany and pretty much all of them are disappointed and/or embarrassed by their government's reluctance to help in a meaningful way and throw Russia out of SWIFT.
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There has to be significant risk exposure to German banks from doing so is my guess. A lot of countries don't want to sanction Russians because of their spending and investment power in those countries but Germany doesn't come off as a country where Russians vacations in large numbers or significant real estate holdings are.
Russians love Cyprus, Italy, UK, Greece, Spain's of the world for that stuff.
Part of the issue now is that it's coming to light that all of these business dealings with Putin, gas pipelines, oligarchs etc is in essence financing this war against a European country.