rest of the world? >> well, the goal over here is to not only deny russia some of the funds, that leads to carry out this expensive military campaign in ukraine, but also to make sure the president putin and those around him feel the economic pinch, to really put the squeeze on russia to make sure that it faces consequences, and hopefully to deter further aggression in ukraine. there has been a lot of skepticism about whether the u.s. and europe would actually be able to take steps as significant as cutting off the major russian banks from this international messaging system, ending the nord stream 2 pipeline, sanctioning putin himself, a significant step that the u.s. and some of these european countries, germany, italy in particular, have been fairly reluctant to take. in part because of the risk of spillover effect for these kinds of sanctions and penalties, not only to average