RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

Moscow covered Europe's jet fuel crisis with the tone of a professor who told his students so. RT published an exhaustive article titled 'Fight or flight: How the global jet fuel crisis could ground you' that dissected the crisis with remarkable technical precision: a Boeing 737 or Airbus A320 burns between 2,500 and 3,000 liters of fuel per hour, an airport tanker truck holds between 30,000 and 45,000 liters -- barely 10 hours of flight for a single-aisle jet. RT explained that the EU does produce jet fuel in its own refineries but in insufficient volumes, that 75% of imports come from the Middle East, and that jet fuel accounts for only 10% of crude oil refining -- a structural bottleneck. The article noted that jet fuel prices had 'roughly doubled' since the war began on February 28. RT cited IEA chief Fatih Birol warning the crisis could become 'the worst energy crisis in history.' Russia's framing is crystal clear: Europe is suffering from a crisis caused by an American war against Iran, not by Russia. Moscow does not even need to say it explicitly -- the article's architecture does the work. This is the first time since 2022 that Russia can position itself as an innocent bystander of a European energy crisis.