Dick Lugar: “Regional stability in Southeast Europe is a foreign policy priority of the United States.”

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.

The President has to want to get back into the discussions. At this point, there is not evidence that that is the case.

The reasons for Russia's violation are unclear. But I believe the violation was likely due to a number of factors...