Dick Lugar: “The end-user situation, in other words, you believe does make this differentiation so that this is not quite so onerous…”

Yes, I believe New START meets this threshold with one exception.

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

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

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.