Dick Lugar: “I think you made an excellent suggestion with our colleagues John Warner and Dan Inouye.”

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

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

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

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.