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> But if SWIFT is already in play, everyone already has a reason to diversify, and will do so. > You can't be making threats and not expect people to try to av
by tablespoon 5y ago
> But if SWIFT is already in play, everyone already has a reason to diversify, and will do so.
> You can't be making threats and not expect people to try to avoid the thing you're threatening.
> Also you can't be hesitating on everything that seems like a one-off. Then you really don't have a lot of sticks to shake at people.
Exactly. It's possible to be too reluctant to "save" a weapon for next time. You can get to the point that you wasted it because you let it gather dust until it was ineffective.
- igravious 5y agoSWIFT is an interconnecting protocol, like the IP in TCP/IP. It's absurd to my mind to talk about weaponising shared/common protocols. It's not only bad because of how it might affect us, it's bad because it's bad in principle. That this way of seeing things is not a more universal way of seeing this matter is telling and disheartening but I guess ultimately not that surprising.