Dick Lugar: “Whenever there's a nexus of nuclear materiel and corruption, the potential for this materiel to end up in the hands of…”

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

Congress has the ability to press the administration on its strategy to prevent a new Euro-missile race and increased instability in the absence of the INF Treaty.

Congress could condition funding to develop new missiles on receipt from the administration of a comprehensive military, economic, and diplomatic strategy to bring Russia back into compliance with the treaty.

There is precedent for using patient diplomacy to resolve treaty violations.