I have more to say about contemporary ethnonationalism, but it’s probably better if I whisper it to myself in Gaeilge. The New York Times and The Washington Post run front page stories about cross-border raids in Belgorod oblast. The latter investigates whether weapons gifted to Ukraine were used. (Of course they were). Val and Anatoly for the NYT rely on three stringers for an account of fighting there. I stopped reading after the sentence starting, “It was a sign of spontaneous social organization….”