Outcast Launches With Its Toughest Blow Deliberately Delayed
X sanctions lawyers read the cure period as fear of shattering correspondent banking while the White House sells strangulation begun - and one unnamed bank decides who is right.
The Washington Post frames the rollout as the toughest blow delayed; the New York Times concedes Bessent described more warning than hammer.
Sanctions-lawyer accounts parse the cure-period language as evidence Treasury fears blowing up correspondent banking, while diaspora accounts see psychological ops aimed at the barracks.