RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

Moscow plays three distinct scores. The first is diplomatic: TASS reports the attack without comment, quoting the Kuwaiti Civil Aviation Authority and the Defense Ministry — a hit terminal, wounded, serious damage. The second is military: TASS runs a dispatch on CENTCOM claiming to have shot down several waves of Iranian drones targeting US forces in Kuwait. The third, more meaningful, is editorial: RT runs an amplified headline — 'US Patriot missile devastated Gulf state airport – Iran (VIDEO)' — putting the version of General Mohebi at the top. The Russian outlet broadcasts the Iranian video of the terminal interior filled with smoke, debris on the floor, fires on the roof. RT does not qualify the theory; it is presented as the default version. The Russian newsroom plays its usual geopolitical role: neutralize the American narrative by amplifying the rival version. Moscow does not condemn Iran and does not praise the United States — it shifts the debate onto the identity of the perpetrator, which is enough to sow doubt in part of the Global South audience. Not a word in Russian coverage on the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats from Kuwait within 24 hours; not a word either on the dead Indian. The Russian perspective is built by subtraction.