Dick Lugar: “This offers an opportunity, frankly, to do some things that people have talked about for decades in Haiti.”

Jettisoning treaties that provide a legal framework for exposing Russian violations achieves nothing.

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.

In the likely event the INF Treaty collapses in August, the only remaining bilateral U.S.-Russia arms control agreement would be New START, which expires in 2021 but can be extended by up to five years through agreement by both parties.

Several members of Congress have already proposed legislation along these lines.