Dick Lugar: “As a corn farmer, I have been promoting corn ethanol for the last 15 years.”

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

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.

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

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