Consider the Money as investment rather than expense
An end at least temporarily for the Russian menace. What greater reward do you want?
By the way. On your lists, I didn’t see Robert Heinlein.
I consider the money spent as gambling at the casino—and I don’t like the odds (and of course the theft by the house is kinda ugly too...).
As to Heinlein he did not have one specific book or short story that I deserved to make the list.
His non fiction quotes were better!