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Just donated US$150 to UNHCR’s Ukraine program while I still can. Don’t know if online bank card payments will still work after SWIFT is disabled for us.

If you care, you could do that too.

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> don’t know if bank card payments will still work after SWIFT is disabled

Russia is being threatened with cut-off, not Ukraine.

Exactly.

I think the implication is that throwaway290 is in Russia

Even though they affect me personally, I understand sanctions directed at Russia as a whole more so than sanctions that hurt innocent people who happen to live in territories occupied by Russia/separatists. (Back when Crimea was annexed, everybody with billing address there had their existing banking cards shut off; freelancers with addresses in Crimea, Donbas etc. are long banned from online marketplaces. It did not affect me, but I never understood the intent.) Luckily, I don't have my own family to support.

Remember when the rest of the world imposed punitive sanctions on the US after they invaded Iraq and Afghanistan?

No. Me neither.

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