And a decade before Kissinger's desert deal, nobody thought the dollar would become the backbone of global finance either. When the Weapon Starts Losing Its Edge The deeper problem isn't that SWIFT was weaponized. It's that the more it gets weaponized, the less powerful it becomes. Every country cut off produces two more quietly accelerating their exit strategy. Every reserve frozen pushes another central bank toward gold. Every time financial infrastructure gets used as a geopolitical missile, it loses a little more of the thing that made it powerful in the first place. Trust.