berlin the us is developing plans to further choke russias oil revenues with the longterm goal of destroying the countrys central role in the global energy economy current and former us officials say a major escalatory step that could put the us in political conflict with china india turkey and other nations that buy russian oilthe proposed measures include imposing a price cap on russian oil backed by socalled secondary sanctions which would punish foreign buyers that do not comply with us restrictions by blocking them from doing business with american companies and those of partner nationsas president putin wages war in ukraine the us and its allies have imposed sanctions on russia that have battered its economy but the nearly 20 billion per month that russia continues to reap from oil sales could sustain the conflict underway in ukraine and finance any future aggressions according to officials us officials say the main question now is how to starve moscow of that money while ensuring that global oil supplies do not drop which could lead to a rise in prices that benefits putin and worsens inflation in the us and elsewherewhile us officials say they do not want to immediately take large amounts of russian oil off the market they are trying to push countries to wean themselves off those imports in the coming months a us ban on sales of critical technologies to russia is partly aimed at crippling its oil companies over many years us officials say the market will eventually adjust as the russian industry fades