them off from the u.s. financial system. and, restrict u.s. investors from dealing with a russian banks and companies critical to the russian economy. the sanctions also freeze all u.s. assets held by russians with close ties to vladimir putin and the fall leaves putin has close ties with. the new sanctions also target russia s military abilities, their activity with key products, and they re designed to block russia s ability to acquire technology essential to defense, aviation, and other critical sections. coming off half of russia s high tech imports, as the washington report quotes, no country as large as russia, with an economy large as russia, ranked 12, according to the international monday fund, has been hit with such massive international sanctions. russia has not yet been removed from swift, a global financial system. present biden said that option