The Patriot Post® · Unleashing the Socks of War

Jonah Goldberg: “In a sense, arguing with the Russian bear is like arguing with a real bear. No matter how eloquently you explain to the bear that it should not eat your face, it’s going to eat your face if it wants to eat your face – that is, if you do nothing tangible to stop it. … On April 12, The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House was still weighing requests from the Ukrainian government for other supplies such as ‘medical kits, uniforms, boots and military socks.’ ‘You want to calibrate your chest-thumps,’ a senior military official told the Journal, explaining this step-by-step approach. ‘He does something else in Ukraine, we release the socks.’ … Call me crazy, but I doubt the response will be ‘Comrades! Call it off! We can’t take the chance that the Ukrainians will have warm, dry feet when we invade Kiev!’” … [H]as it really gotten to the point where the U.S. military now defines ‘chest-thumping’ as unleashing the socks of war?“