# Dollar Access as a Weapon

Washington will keep extending sanctions from hostile states to international institutions and allied jurisdictions, and each extension pushes governments to build payment channels outside the dollar system, slowly eroding the dollar's reserve role.

- Conviction: 38 / 100 (weakening)
- Horizon: Emerging (watchlist)
- Tracking since: 2026-10-11T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-12T14:07:12.960Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/trends/dollar-access-as-weapon
- Publisher: Polylog
- Affected regions: United States, Global

## Recent score history

- 2026-10-11: 40
- 2026-10-12: 38

## Recent evidence

- [confirms] Washington Sanctions the International Criminal Court Hours After a Former Judge Wins the Nobel Peace Prize (2026-10-11): Washington sanctioned the International Criminal Court hours after former ICC judge Navi Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize, in measures that could cut the court's roughly 900 staff off from dollar banking. This extends dollar-access denial to an international institution whose members include US allies, which strengthens their case for non-dollar channels.