Is there a limit to the West’s appetite for defeating Putin?

“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money” is one of those phrases from the height of the Cold War in the 1960s that has become embedded in the American political vernacular.“A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking real money” is one of those phrases from the height of the Cold War in the 1960s that has become embedded in the American political vernacular.