{"id":1177,"date":"2008-09-14T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2008\/09\/putins-ruthless-gambit\/"},"modified":"2008-09-14T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T13:05:26","slug":"putins-ruthless-gambit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2008\/09\/putins-ruthless-gambit\/","title":{"rendered":"PUTIN&#8217;S RUTHLESS GAMBIT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary toview the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significantgeopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energyriches of the Caspian Sea basin &#8211; with former Russian president (nowprime minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning grand master ofgeostrategic chess and the Bush team turning out to be middlingamateurs, at best.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomdispatch.com\/post\/174971\"  target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary toview the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significantgeopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energyriches of the Caspian Sea basin &#8211; with former Russian president (nowprime minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning grand master ofgeostrategic chess [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}