After the Dissenter’s recent acquisition of readers on the political far right, it’s time for a piece more than just our usual leftist-liberal audience of 9 can get excited about.

Bluntly put, it’s been a rough autumn and winter for us namby-pamby foreigners who know nothing about life and the world.

After the Paris attacks, a lot of us found themselves drawn towards their inner feelings, and felt they needed to find their own way to emotionally cope with the wrongs in the world.

This sentiment is expressed very nicely in the Facebook comment below, posted by a fellow expat here in Tallinn just a few days after, in response to the response to the response to the heinous terrorist attacks on innocent partygoers:

No, I haven’t “forgotten that Paris isn’t the only place where bad things are happening.” I was going to keep quiet and let the posts rain in, but I can’t any more. In our attempts to understand the world, let’s not tell the people who lost friends or relatives on Friday that their grief somehow isn’t valid.

I’m praying for the whole world, but I’m definitely praying for my friends in Paris marked safe, the one who hasn’t been yet, and all the other people who are devastated by what happened. Neither do I accept the wrongheaded argument that somehow “we had this coming” because of the mess we have made of the world. No-one deserves to lose their life, and two wrongs, or 200 wrongs, don’t make a right.

The international system, collectively, has made an appalling mess of the world both before and since 9/11. I accept that there are wars that should not have been fought, and that money, power and big business have driven a lot of terrible decisions. But nothing gives the barbarians of “Islamic State” the right to threaten our way of life, or to intimidate my friends.

Enough with the moral equivalency and whataboutery. If people want to pray for Paris, or think about Paris, let them — I am.*

The sorrow and compassion expressed in this post aren’t derailed at all by the fact that its author choses to make no fewer than 15 references to his own person in the face of such a crisis. Across just four paragraphs, no less! But its preference of moral righteousness over aggression just goes to show that wimps like us indeed have a very difficult standing in an increasingly violent world.

Which is why we’re so deeply impressed by the morally impeccable defence of homeland and values displayed by valiant and heroic EKRE, certain elements of Vabaerakond, and that other repulsive creep’s family values movement.

But just when the manly knights of all that’s good and righteous had given us a new sense of security, the Turks had to shoot down that bloody Russian fighter-bomber on the wrong side of the Syrian border.

This suddenly made several of us pansies painfully aware of Tallinn’s proximity to the Evil Empire that’s once again on the rise, and forget for a moment our own role in the impending doom to be brought about by migrants and liberal minds of all colours and persuasions.

But here’s a thought: Estonia’s far from Europe’s most important centres. Its contributions to NATO efforts, though perhaps noteworthy in proportion, are negligible. It won’t be a priority target for IS and terrorism.

It still isn’t the nicest place to be for us gay, black, worldly minded and impertinent blood-sucking immigrants. But anti-anti sentiment is on the rise. A new generation is emerging that has a more optimistic view of how this country can interact with the rest of the world.

This generation would rather travel, see the world and enjoy life than whine, draw awkwardly worded signs, and freeze their private parts off loitering outside Toompea Loss to no effect whatsoever.

The far and extreme right, in Estonia as much as anywhere else, not only have to deal with their own incompetence, but also with an almost automatically increasing connectedness with the rest of the world. This fosters tolerance, and in the long run will help EKRE and its sympathisers go the way all such parties have to go in this age of globalisation: to the 20%-of-the-vote corner, where the only record ever broken is that of the number of bad jokes told in five minutes or less.

So though it may make the opposite impression, Estonia is actually becoming more tolerant in the long run.

Then, Russia, even clearer now after Putin’s New Year address, might be going for terrorism as a politically less loaded way to keep its public opinion in line, which makes crises involving the Baltic less likely. So at least for the time being, there are other things to worry about.

Estonia is pretty safe from terrorist attacks, due to the comfortable lack of importance small countries enjoy. Estonia’s a NATO member and relatively safe from Russian randomness thanks to that; and it’s nicely stable, and if major change should indeed occur, Riigikogu is likely to get its inspiration for it from the Germans.

Not all that bad, then. Let’s all go invest in real estate.