Dick Lugar: “Our most time-sensitive agenda item with Russia is the preservation of the START treaty.”

That is a very dangerous attitude to take.

What we really need right now is a revival of NATO, a revival of the spirit of the allies...

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

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.