Seeing both numbers, especially the latter one, Wang Ye's brows furrowed.
It wasn't that he found it too much, but rather too little!
2.5 trillion Rubles, at the current exchange rate, with the US dollar to Ruble rate at 31:1, that's roughly eighty billion US dollars...
For such a major power, to only have eighty billion US dollars in finance expenditures for the entire year, to be honest, seemed rather "pitiful"!
Especially when compared to other major powers, the United States had an annual finance revenue of 1.78 trillion US dollars in 2003, with finance expenditures reaching an astonishing 2.16 trillion US dollars!
Running a deficit of nearly four hundred billion US dollars...
Just the shortfall alone amounted to five times of Russia's, how could they even compare?
Alright, the United States is a unique existence, the number one power worldwide, so you can't compare with it.
Then let's take a look at countries of a similar "rank".