Russia already uses multiple alternative settlement systems with China, Iran, and few other buddies like Norko, and Belarus.
> You then get fragmentation and SWIFT losing some of its "soft power".
This already lost any power it had in 2014, because the threat of disconnection was wasted.
An honestly, EU lost its face now to talk "soft power." Every foreign head of state going to meet EU bureaucrats will now look at them, and think "can I rely on these people who threw out every treaty for a want of sleeping without a blanket?"
> You then get fragmentation and SWIFT losing some of its "soft power".
This already lost any power it had in 2014, because the threat of disconnection was wasted.
An honestly, EU lost its face now to talk "soft power." Every foreign head of state going to meet EU bureaucrats will now look at them, and think "can I rely on these people who threw out every treaty for a want of sleeping without a blanket?"