; (2) promote and expand cooperation and mutual defense with European and Asian allies through— (A) strengthening the United States offensive posture and defensive infrastructure on the European continent; and (B) enhancing military to military coordination with key allies in Europe and Asia; (3) pressure the Russian Federation to abide by its commitments regarding the INF Treaty and discontinue engaging in hostile activities regarding its missile program by— (A) diplomatically engaging the Russian Federation within the Special Verification Commission; (B) articulating that the Russian Federation is in material breach of the INF Treaty; and (C) communicating to the Russian Federation that if they remain in non-compliance with the INF Treaty by January 1, 2019, the United States will— (i) take military actions to improve our European deterrence and defense capabilities, including the development of a conventional variant of the Long Range Stand-off system (LRSO); (ii) assist United States allies in improving their air- and sea-launched conventional strike capabilities by facilitating sales of the extended-range variant of the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM–ER) and sea-based Tomahawk cruise missile; and (iii) deploy limited defenses against cruise missiles to protect key alliance assets