https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/visa-and-mastercard-will-both-suspend-operations-in-russia

How can 2 parties (US and Ukraine) meet and decide the financial fate of Russia- 146,000,000 people of which 99.99% have nothing to do with the war have to struggle and potentially lose their life savings over something that wasn't their fault.

War IS a crime. But so are blanket bans on INNOCENT people.

One argument might be that "oh Russia needs to be economically pressured".

HOWEVER let's not forget the US- who by the way have provoked this war and have been responsible for countless innocent lives and disruption in the world.
Let's not forget that when the US killed over 2 million innocent people in Iraq none of the top politicians or billionaires were punished. Is that fair?

Anyways the solution to remove all evil is clear: decentralised distributed systems that are not consoled by a single entity.

Bitcoin is what they are scared of it being. BTC