“Don’t wait for the translation — yes or no!”

Russia will soon face a repeat of that October 1962 moment when then-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Adlai Stevenson confronted the Soviet Union’s ambassador with evidence of Soviet missile deployments in Cuba. This time, however, the proof of deception will be in relation to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s denial of responsibility for the March nerve agent assassination attempt against a former British intelligence agent, Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.