{"id":55951,"date":"2023-01-17T09:57:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55951"},"modified":"2023-01-17T09:57:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T17:57:53","slug":"experts-see-desperation-in-flailing-putins-war-leadership-shuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55951","title":{"rendered":"Experts see &#8216;desperation&#8217; in &#8216;flailing&#8217; Putin\u2019s war leadership shuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u2019s\u00a0\u201cflailing\u201d decision this week to name a new leader for his invasion of Ukraine\u00a0reflects a growing sense of desperation for the Kremlin, U.S. experts say.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The appointment of former chief of the general staff General Valery Gerasimov as overall commander of the country\u2019s so-called special military operation has global watchers increasingly dubious of Putin\u2019s wartime strategy following a series of embarrassing battlefield losses since summer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But the switch-up, which included the\u00a0demotion of Gen. Sergey Surovikin, head of the invasion since October, could also indicate a coming escalation of Russia\u2019s brutal war tactics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy sense is that Putin is flailing because he\u2019s not getting what he wants,\u201d former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin\u2019s\u00a0\u201cflailing\u201d decision this week&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55952,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55951\/revisions\/55952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}