Swift and oil and gas26 Feb 2022 09:12
With renewed talk about swift, what are people's thoughts on the impact if it were to happen.
I struggle to see US in acting such a move due to long term damage and believe it will effectively move more power to China eventually which will ramp up their alternative.
But anything is possible.
If it did happen, I am struggling to see how it is not different to cutting off oil and gas from Russia as essentially Russia couldn't get paid and why would they then sell to EU ?
Also on some of the other virtue signaling :
In the 24 hours after Vladimir Putin signed a decree recognizing two breakaway Ukrainian territories, the European Union, the U.K., and the U.S. bought a combined 3.5 million barrels of Russian oil and refined products, worth more than $350 million at current prices. On top of that, the West probably bought another $250 million worth of Russian natural gas, plus tens of millions dollars of aluminum, coal, nickel, titanium, gold and other commodities. In total, the bill likely topped $700 million.