us not from sidney is brendan o'connor. he's a professor of us politics and us foreign relations at the university of sydney. go to have you with this brendan. so how much of the us budget actually goes to farm aid and how does that compare to how much other countries spend? well, the us is the largest economy in the world, gives about 9 and a half $1000000000.00 and foreign id. yeah, this is well, but. ready the wrong promise target. ready about one percent of g d p to foreign i united states because about a 0.23 percent of its gd pay, the strongest performers in that regard. the. ready scan. ready in countries. ready white sweden giving closer to the one percent of to the pay target of japan to slip down considerably in recent years and it's far night as well. so there's, you know, there's a many needs out there in terms of famine, in terms of economic deprivation around the world. but we don't usually count military 8 entirely in fine. 8 and recent times united states has given