{"id":254580,"date":"2025-07-10T22:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254580\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T22:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T22:13:11","slug":"putins-war-in-ukraine-may-cost-him-control-of-the-south-caucasus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/254580\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s war in Ukraine may cost him control of the south Caucasus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">FOR MOST people, geopolitics is an abstraction. For those living in the south Caucasus, which consists of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia, it is a daily experience. The region between the Black and Caspian seas, Europe and Asia, sits at the crossroads of old empires: Ottoman, Persian and Russian. Situated alongside the belligerents of today\u2019s most dangerous wars\u2014Russia\u2019s against Ukraine and the Iranian-Israeli conflict\u2014it illustrates like few other regions the rise of middle powers and retreat of big ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FOR MOST people, geopolitics is an abstraction. For those living in the south Caucasus, which consists of Azerbaijan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,522,332,657,333,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-254580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-international","11":"tag-russia","12":"tag-ukraine","13":"tag-vladimir-putin","14":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114831242282999378","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}