{"id":22767,"date":"2016-03-16T08:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-16T08:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/putins-syria-tactics-keep-him-at-the-fore-and-leave-everyone-else-guessing\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T22:29:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T22:29:19","slug":"putins-syria-tactics-keep-him-at-the-fore-and-leave-everyone-else-guessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/putins-syria-tactics-keep-him-at-the-fore-and-leave-everyone-else-guessing\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s Syria Tactics Keep Him at the Fore and Leave Everyone Else Guessing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 President Vladimir V. Putin\u2018s typically theatrical order to withdraw the bulk of Russian forces from Syria, a process that the Defense Ministry said it began on Tuesday, seemingly caught Washington, Damascus and everybody in between off guard \u2014 just the way the Russian leader likes it.<\/p>\n<p>By all accounts, Mr. Putin delights at creating surprises, reinforcing Russia\u2019s newfound image as a sovereign, global heavyweight and keeping him at the center of world events.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/16\/world\/europe\/vladimir-putin-russia-syria.html?hp&#038;action=click&#038;pgtype=Homepage&#038;clickSource=story-heading&#038;module=second-column-region&#038;region=top-news&#038;WT.nav=top-news&#038;_r=0\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW \u2014 President Vladimir V. Putin\u2018s typically theatrical order to withdraw the bulk of Russian&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1113],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22768,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22767\/revisions\/22768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kedisa.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}