Dick Lugar: “We are certainly backing off from the commitments to food security, the Feed the Future initiative that Senator Lugar…”

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

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

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.

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.