{"id":1948,"date":"2013-10-05T16:18:20","date_gmt":"2013-10-05T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=1948"},"modified":"2013-10-05T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-05T20:18:20","slug":"moscow-lithuania-a-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/10\/05\/moscow-lithuania-a-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow &amp; Lithuania: A Showdown?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">An article in <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1gauMOC\">The Moscow Times<\/a> caught my eye yesterday. I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about Russia lately, not just in this Russian history course but in other courses as well. With every reading something becomes more and more apparent: Russia has a bit of an attitude when it comes to international relations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">I get it; history shows that their path to the present wasn&#8217;t exactly a walk in the park. They are often on the defensive and find themselves with few allies that truly have their back. But isn&#8217;t it time they drop the innocent, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know <i>what<\/i> you&#8217;re talking about&#8221; act? The following excerpt from the article displays this:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8220;Titov (Russia&#8217;s deputy foreign minister) said that speculation about Lithuania responding with border restrictions is an\u00a0attempt to\u00a0create the\u00a0impression that it is the\u00a0&#8220;victim of\u00a0some imaginary outside\u00a0pressure&#8221; and\u00a0accused Lithuanian carriers of\u00a0violating customs rules more and\u00a0more often&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The language alone gives off a feeling of arrogance. They are belittling the actions of Lithuania in an attempt to discredit them. And certainly Russia doesn&#8217;t have a history of inflicting &#8220;outside pressure&#8221; on its neighbors, does it? \u00a0Oh, wait&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Maybe Lithuania really is making something out of nothing and Russia is completely guilt-free of the interference in Lithuanian trade of which they are being accused. \u00a0But as a historian I was taught to learn from the past, and in this case the past is on the side of Lithuania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article in The Moscow Times caught my eye yesterday. I&#8217;ve been reading a lot about Russia lately, not just in this Russian history course but in other courses as well. With every reading something becomes more and more apparent: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2013\/10\/05\/moscow-lithuania-a-showdown\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1783,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[85531,85532,85494,803,85529,22761,1580],"class_list":["post-1948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-border-restrictions","tag-current-affairs","tag-h254","tag-history","tag-lithuania","tag-moscow","tag-trade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1783"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}