Dick Lugar: “Our influence in the Middle East significantly reduced by our inability to be able to effect things.”

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

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.