Finance is weaponized insofar that this large web of interdependent economic relationships is extremely beneficial to be a part of. Trade creates giant win-win

Finance is weaponized insofar that this large web of interdependent economic relationships is extremely beneficial to be a part of. Trade creates giant win-win situations where parties can specialize and use the economic surplus they produce to buy what they don't produce from others. You lose those benefits by being cut off from the web of relationships.