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Because the U.S. financial system, and access to it is a very powerful tool in terms of international diplomacy, and a crucial source of evidence/intelligence for law enforcement.

Trivial abilities to move money around and an inability to lock out financial endpoints would completely neuter it's utility as sanctioning measure.



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