https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/05/visa-and-mastercard-will-both-suspend-operations-in-russiaHow 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 Western Governments fight supposed tyranny with tyranny itself. It's so backwards. Sec Warren in the US recently said that crypto should either do business in Russia, or the US, but not both. Shows how uneducated she and the rest of that Government are.