Putin Signals Openness to Dialogue With Macron and Merz

🇷🇺 MOSCOW — Putin opens a dialogue door the week Washington shut Europe's. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: The Kremlin's offer to Macron and Merz lands as Pentagon asked NATO allies to mute Russia rhetoric for Epic Fury. Moscow knows Europe is being sidelined — a direct dialogue offer to Paris and Berlin wedges US operational sequencing from European political instinct. If either leader engages, Washington's two-front management frays before November 3.