RUSSIA PERSPECTIVE

Moscow watches the transatlantic fracture with barely concealed satisfaction. TASS headlines 'Macron considers US to be unreliable ally' -- five words that compress into a single dispatch everything the Kremlin has been saying for years. The article, sober and factual, merely relays Macron's Athens declarations: 'The number one power, the US, could be an ally for certain countries, but this ally is not so much certain.' TASS adds that Macron had already told students in Nicosia that the US would stop defending Europe in the long run.

Why this unusual restraint from a Russian outlet? Because the fact speaks for itself. Moscow doesn't need commentary when the French president is saying what Putin has repeated since 2007: America is not a reliable partner for Europe. TASS lets Macron's words do the propaganda work -- this is editorial diplomacy at its finest.

TASS's silence on the Pentagon's threat against Spain is equally telling. Moscow doesn't mention the email because commenting would mean acknowledging that Russia monitors NATO's internal divisions -- something everyone knows but no one says. The Kremlin prefers to let the West tear itself apart, content to relay the most corrosive statements from its own leaders.