 Most G7 members were reluctant, instead offering technical assistance and proposing the Soviets receive "special associate" status—rather than full membership—of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund.Gorbachev was frustrated that the U.S. would spend $100 billion on the Gulf War but would not offer his country loans.Other countries were more forthcoming; West Germany had given the Soviets DM60 billion by mid-1991.