As if the U.S. would crash a bank on purpose lol.

Why not? It's not like Blackrock won't just bail them out as usual.

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed because of the cracks in the banking system. This was all due to a year of unprecedented interest rate hikes and tightening, following a decade of money printing and ultra-loose policy, something had to give.

So Putin to blame as well as deregulations and Biden's bad start to managing inflation...