Here’s a good place to start.
U.S. assistance to Russia from 1992-2007:
Fiscal Year 1992: Total 328.42 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1993: Total 1,454.75 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1994: Total 1,915.79 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1995: Total 570.26 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1996: Total 492.86 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1997: Total 545.52 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1998: Total 599.04 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 1999: Total 2,132.47 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2000: Total 1,053.99 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2001: Total 955.52 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2002: Total 1,014.54 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2003: Total 912.50 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2004: Total 944.67 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2005: Total 1,008.06 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2006: Total 961.65 Million dollars
Fiscal Year 2007: Total 913.28 Million
(Source: US State Department)
And this should happen tomorrow right after PT!
In international terms when you’re giving money to a country of thugs run by a thug that has nuclear weapons, they call it “assistance”. When you give money to local thugs, they call it “extortion”. Neither should be tolerated.
FY 2008/9? Zero would be good.