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

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

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.