<story><title>Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/very-probable-that-swiss-will-freeze-russian-assets-president-2022-02-27/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>aemreunal</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.fo&amp;#x2F;baj7M&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.fo&amp;#x2F;baj7M&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Neutral Swiss poised to freeze Russian assets – president</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/very-probable-that-swiss-will-freeze-russian-assets-president-2022-02-27/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaycebasques</author><text>Regardless of politics I think it&amp;#x27;s objective to say we&amp;#x27;re seeing a major increase in the weaponization of the global financial system. Perhaps the most important second order effect (assuming&amp;#x2F;praying that the war ends very soon) is a faster de-dollarization in China.&lt;p&gt;A question: does Switzerland have any prior precedent of actions like this? I thought they were neutral?</text></comment>