Foreign Policy: on Homeland Security

Ed Gillespie: Condemn deep and dangerous defense-budget cuts

Ted Cruz: Suspend Russia from G8 & withdraw from arms control treaties

• The US should urge the G8 to suspend Russia immediately on the grounds that it is not contributing to a civil international order [based on the Ukraine invasion].
• Congress should start a formal review of the options for US withdrawal from arms control treaties with Russia.
• The secretary of defense should consider the immediate restoration of the full missile defense installations originally planned for Poland and the Czech Republic that were canceled by the Obama administration in 2009.
• The president should immediately offer the government of Ukraine in Kiev a free trade agreement indicating that goods are welcome in the US, and explore other options to assist them in their economic recovery that are consistent with free market principles, including access to US energy exports and assistance to develop Ukraine's own energy resources so as to allow them to be independent of energy blackmail by Russia.