RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

TASS reports the incident with a dual technical and geopolitical framing. Militarily, the agency cites CBS to specify the F-15 was 'likely conducting ground strikes' -- a detail that underlines American aggression rather than Iranian defensive capability. The pilot has only a 'simple sidearm' for defense, the cited expert notes. But the most revealing article covers energy consequences: Switzerland's Neue Zurcher Zeitung, reprinted by TASS, observes the war 'puts Europe in a difficult position' because it rejected Russian energy resources. TASS savors the irony: voices in Europe opposing the phase-out of Russian oil and gas 'are growing louder again.' Moscow doesn't comment on the downed plane for what it is -- a military moment -- but for what it produces: proof that America's war validates the Russian thesis of a post-Western order in decomposition. Iran resists, Europe suffers, America sinks deeper -- for the Kremlin, this is the perfect trilogy. Not a word about Iranian civilian casualties or Russia's role as arms supplier.