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U.S. power increasingly operates through correspondent banking. Secondary sanctions target banks, not exporters, because denial of dollar access is usually enough to force compliance. The threat is the weapon.
The GENIUS Act structurally channels stablecoin adoption into short-dated Treasury demand — but the 'trillion-dollar buyer' framing is incomplete. The flywheel compresses front-end yields while concentrating rollover risk and introducing new redemption-run fragilities.