In early June, on the behest of the Biden administration, German leaders assembled high financial officers from the Group of seven nations for a video convention with the aim of putting a significant monetary blow to Russia.
The People had been making an attempt, in a sequence of one-off conversations final yr, to sound out their counterparts in Europe, Canada and Japan on an uncommon and untested thought. Administration officers needed to attempt to cap the worth that Moscow might command for each barrel of oil it…