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The United States says it has prepared a package of sanctions if Russia breaches Ukraine’s border. The most far-reaching financial penalty, flagged by Biden on Wednesday, would be to block Russian banks from dealing in dollars. That would be similar to past American measures against countries like Iran and North Korea. The risk of such sanctions, however, is that they would cut European countries off from much-needed Russian gas, because European lenders which dealt with Russian counterparts would also be at risk of repercussions. A less onerous punishment would be for Washington to ban Americans from holding debt or equity issued by Russian state lenders...." Hmmm...
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/ukraine-sabre-rattling-hits-russian-bank-investors-2022-01-20/
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