Veel Üks Ring (One More Round)

According to Tõnis Saarts, Associate Professor of Comparative Politics at Tallinn University , defensive democracy is a rare form of contemporary democracy that prioritizes existential and national security over democratic rights and liberties, but, while doing so, it still adheres to the core principles of democracy. [This] doctorine asserts that in order to preserve the country's very existence and the democratic system itself, it may be necessary to curtail certain democratic freedoms and rights of specific social groups on some occasions. [A] second feature of a defensive democracy is that because the very existence of the country and democratic order is depicted as being under constant threat, the securitization of various policy areas and societal domains gradually becomes a new normality and necessity. In international relations "securitization" is defined as the process in which state actors transform subjects from regular political issues into matters of "...

...around 1,100 miles (1,780 kilometers) from England and 1,270 miles (2,045 km) from Turkey, "as the crow flies," according to Google Gemini. A nonstop Ryanair (FR) flight from Lennart Meri Tallinn Airport (TLL) to London Stansted Airport (STN) is two hours and 45 minutes, an airBaltic (BT) flight to London Gatwick (LGW) is three hours and five minutes, and a WIZZ Airlines (W) flight to London Luton (LTN) three hours and 10 minutes, according to the airlines' schedules. A LOT Polish Airlines (LO) flight from TLL to London Heathrow Airport (LHR) with a connection in Warsaw Chopin Airport (WAW) takes a total of  five hours and 20-to-35 minutes. Since LHR is not in the Schengen Zone, a portion of the layover at WAW must be spent crawling through passport control. But WAW is just one terminal, and the walks from the arrival to the departure gates are surprisingly short (unless the plane parks on the tarmac and passengers take a bus to the gate). Although LHR's T2, 3, 4, ...

...the son of Robert, the grandson of Joseph, the great-grandson of Frank, and the great-great-grandson of John. Joseph, Robert, and I were born in Sangamon County; Frank was born in Morgan or Sangamon County. John was born in Ireland, according to U.S. Census records from as far back as 1870. ...the son of Carol, the grandson of VT, the great-grandson of Louis, the great-great-grandson of James, and perhaps the great-great-great grandson of Thomas. Carol was born in Macoupin County, VT in Macon County (most likely), Louis and James in Montgomery County, and Thomas in Madison or Jackson County, Tennessee. ...27% Scottish and Welsh, 22% English, just 18% Irish, and 10% Germanic, according to MyHeritage's latest "Ethnicity Estimate" algorithm. Ireland's ambassador to Estonia said that I am Irish enough to be on the embassy's mailing list. ...the great-great-grandson of a day laborer, according to the 1870 census; the great-grandson of a mining engineer (1900 and 191...