Quick take: What's your price?

 I'll address this in more depth with a full post on Saturday, but here is the key question.  What price would you pay to stop Putin?  That's it.  That is the policy question.  Nothing comes for free, and for all my Adam Smith-esque snark from the other day, we aren't in positive-sum territory anymore.  A monster is on the loose.  What would you pay to stop him?  If your willingness to pay tops out below the cost of stopping him, you won't stop him.  Americans don't want to pay.  Putin won't be stopped.  Basic arithmetic.