In the end, it only took three days for Western countries to agree on the triggering of what they consider to be a weapon of massive financial destruction.
After lengthy discussions on Saturday evening, the Europeans and the Americans agreed to exclude many Russian banks from the Swift interbank platform, an essential cog in global finance.
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Divided for a long time, with some states very dependent on Russia for energy or trade, the members of the EU finally sided, one by one, with the option of exclusion.
After Italy and Hungary, Berlin made a major turnaround and ended up joining this initiative, imitated on Sunday by Japan.
"We were able to take sanctions in less than 24 hours," said
a European official on Sunday.
Berlin, which currently chairs the G7 forum, all of whose members (US, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Britain, Japan and the European Commission)…
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