Dick Lugar: “About half of our substantial military budget goes, one way or another, to protecting our oil trade”

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.

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.

It seems to me to be really a safety net there.

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