Former Trump defense chief Chris Miller warns Ukraine crisis could become World War III

justthenews.com ^ | 4/20/2022 | Madeleine Hubbard

[bitt]

"At the end of the day, we're gonna have to stand up to [Putin] more forcefully," he said.

Trump administration acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller on Wednesday applauded Ukraine for executing what may be the "most successful military campaign" in history, but he warned that if the West does not "stand up" against Russian President Vladimir Putin, World War Three III could start — if it hasn't already.

"I fear if we don't get our act together ... this will be World War III," Miller said, adding, "Many people think it already is."

The Kremlin threatened to take nuclear measures last week after Sweden and Finland said they wanted to join NATO. The war has publicly turned bloodier, with Russia being accused of committing numerous war crimes in Ukraine.

"If we don't stand up right now and fight back against Putin, it's gonna get a lot worse," Miller told "Just the News, Not Noise."

Putin has denied accusations of committing "genocide," but Miller said the world needs to learn from history.

"We could kind of turn the other cheek for a while, but at the end of the day, we're gonna have to stand up to this guy more forcefully," he said.

The United States and much of the world have imposed numerous sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began, while Putin remains undeterred.

Miller said he has directly recognized Ukrainian leaders for their military strength against Russia.

[rodguy911]

Good post and likely real.

One thing I think is overlooked is Putin's obvious relationship with Trump.

When Trump was in full power instead of the stalemate that exists now Trump and Putin had at the very least an understanding of who each other were and what their goals were.

For us it was clear that Trump wanted only the best for the US.You can make a case Putin wants the same for Russia. He was obsessed with doing right for the country whether it was the economy,foreign affairs, space, immigration or whatever the issue.

Trump always put the US interests first. Unlike what we have now, a cabal run, idiotic marionette, run by the Obama III gang.

Putin clearly is taking advantage of the situation with our leadership vacuum while he can,its just who he is.You can equate that with a slick criminal taking advantage of someone leaving the vault door wide open at the bank. He just has to get a bag and fill it with money,cant help himself,after all he is a KGB criminal and always has been. just one of the reasons he targeted several cities in Ukraine using the Russian navy.He has always wanted warm water ports wherever and whenever instead of the frozen-assed ports he has in bitter-cold Russia much of the year.Like the criminal he is he had to take some shots at the waterfront cites while he could,after all the vault door was wide open. If we can get through the next few months until the reign of the criminal cabal now running the US is weakened after the November elections Trump may have enough power to once again negotiate with Putin.

It's clear Putin has little respect for perceived underlings. Sitting at the end of the table as he did was a sure sign of disrespect. He only wants "one on one" with those he considers his equal,Trump and few others.

The two are alike in many ways since it's clear both want the best for their respective countries.

Below in the clip from the link it's clear Putin has empathy for the late Qdaffi who was brutally murdered by the cabal who got all the bad players from the UN to NATO to country after country and 250k well paid terrorists spending two years and a bundle of Soros bucks to destroy Qdaffi and Libya.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60807134 Those who have observed him say the Russian leader is driven by a desire to overcome the perceived humiliation of Russia in the 1990s along with a conviction that the West is determined to keep Russia down and drive him from power. One person who met Mr Putin remembers his obsession with watching videos of Libya's Col Gaddafi being killed after he was driven from power in 2011.

Qdaffi had dared to suggest securing the dinar with gold which drove Soros,a currency speculator, mad. So he destroyed the country and killed Qdaffi. Putin clearly sees himself as a sort of oil baron/Qaddafi sort who could well get targeted the way Qaddafi was.It probably weighs on him.

Lot of differences however since Putin has weapons Qdaffi could only have dreamed of.

Once again the solution to the problem remains DJT,he can't return soon enough for me.

[rodguy911]

Simply brilliant, great job!

[SaveFerris]

Yeah that about sums things up

Unfortunately.

We sure do live in interesting times.

[21twelve]

Bump to myself for more reading. Thanks!

[rodguy911]

From your link here:

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2016/01/11/kgb-christians-putin-stalin-kgbs-history-manipulating-orthodox-church/

The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has been, since its reconstitution during WWII, an instrument of the state. The best illustration of this is probably the 1949 “Greetings from the clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church to the leader of the nations of the USSR, the Generalissimus Joseph Stalin on his 70th birthday.” It states, in part:

Witnessing at every step your noble efforts to make people’s lives peaceful and happy, we see in your person not only a great statesman and leader, guiding the lives of people in a new direction of history, but also a fatherly, caring trustee of all aspects of our human existence with all its various needs.

The Russian Orthodox patriarch at the time of Putin’s Easter show was patriarch Aleksi II, who died on December 5, 2008. Lt. Gen. (r) Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest Soviet bloc official to defect to the United States, writes of Aleksi II, “The KGB had carried him under the codename ‘DROZDOV’ and awarded him its Certificate of Honor, as was learned from a KGB archive accidentally left behind in Estonia.”

Additionally, we know more from “original KGB documents known as the Mitrokhin Archive (described by the FBI as the most complete and extensive intelligence ever received from any source).” We also know more “from Politburo documents released by Father Gleb Yakunin, vice chairman of a Russian parliamentary commission that investigated the KGB’s manipulation of the church.”

And with those details in hand, the “election” of a new patriarch in 2009 was quite a sight to behold:

On January 27, 2009, the 700 Synod delegates assembling in Moscow were indeed presented with a slate listing three candidates. All, however, belonged to the secret KGB army: Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk worked for the KGB under the code name “MIKHAYLOV”; Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk has just been identified as having labored for the KGB under the codename “OSTROVSKY”; Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga was recently discovered to have been listed under the codename “TOPAZ”.

When the bells at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow announced that a new patriarch had been elected, Metropolitan Kirill, aka “MIKHAYLOV,” proved to be the winner. Presumably, the KGB/FSB considered him to be in a better position to carry out its tasks abroad, where he had directed his efforts during most of his professional life. In 1971, the KGB had sent him to Geneva (Switzerland) as a representative of the Russian Orthodox Church to the World Council of Churches (WCC), the largest international ecumenical organization after the Vatican, representing some 550 million Christians of various denominations throughout 120 countries. His task was to use his position in the WCC to spread the doctrine of Liberation Theology—a Marxist religious movement born in the KGB—throughout Latin America. In 1975, the KGB had infiltrated “MIKHAYLOV” into the WCC’s central committee, and in 1989 the KGB had appointed him chairman of the Russian patriarchate’s foreign relations as well—positions he still held when he was “elected” patriarch. Indeed, in his acceptance speech “MIKHAYLOV” announced that he would establish religious television channels in Russia that would broadcast abroad.

Kirill/“MIKHAYLOV” recently attacked the “Godless” Ukrainians – though, according to one journalist (a recipient of the Blessed Karol Wojtyla [Pope John Paul II] prize for excellence in journalism dealing with religious themes), “25% of the population attends Easter services in Ukraine compared to 2% in Russia.”

In November, Kirill/“MIKHAYLOV” asked that Russians “remember positive achievements of the Soviet period”:

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UNdoubtedly PUtin is aware that the vatican is one of the three most corrupt institutions in the world with the others in NYC and London.

Most corrupt banks/institutions ever.

[SaveFerris]

(220 ton RS-28 Sarmat)

Yikes. I hadn’t kept up since the days when -27 was replacing the -25.

[WWG1WWA]

What do you make of the fact that Zelensky owns a $35,000,000 mansion in Florida & the $$$ 1.3 billion dollar account in Costa Rica? That’s quite a haul for a little known comedian in Ukraine.

[SaveFerris]

(Historically, leftists the world over, from China, Russia, and the EU (especially Germany/France), and as well as strong elements from within the US, have each revealed and demonstrated efforts in creating “League of Nations”, “United Nations” (non-revisionist history reveals CCCP as real architect behind UN by the way), and “New World Order”.)

That’s why I think it’s some sort of cult. This ridiculous “dream” that “world government” is somehow going to be beneficial to all mankind. To put on a “Global Citizen” t-shirt 👕 and believe in the coming nightmare being portrayed as a utopia ... Well, it’s beyond naive.

I always wondered how Daniel 7:23 could be possible.

I now consider it unavoidable. Which really is a foregone conclusion since it was prophesied so very long ago.

[odawg]

All those tears shed by some conservative voices over sending more arms to Ukraine should be engaged in trying to get Zenlensky to cut loose the two eastern provinces, both traditional Russian and Russian speaking and the Crimea, traditionally Russian territory, and save his nation from being turned into rubble and his people all killed.

[Sirius Lee]

if the West does not "stand up" against Russian President Vladimir Putin, World War Three III could start

Because that's how you prevent WWIII - ratchet up the heat on a cancer ridden mafia thug with nukes who has nothing left to lose.

The Ivy Leagues churn out some real beauts, don't they?

[DoughtyOne]

I’ve not been a fan of his, but I wouldn’t term my views of him to be as negative as others. I haven’t followed him closely. The Ukraine has not interested me as much as it has seemed to interest others.

His assets were worth about 37 million hryvnias (about US $1.5 million) in 2018. (As per Wikipedia) See below for a vastly different estimate of his worth.

Here’s a list of the comparable wealth of some of our Congress critters. Some of them developed their wealth prior to entering Congress. Others developed theirs while in Congress.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth

Not knowing much of anything about him, I reviewed this Wikipedia presentation. I would urge you to consider how sanitized it might be. It seems rather reasonable. It seems rather detailed. It seems to fairly touch on some negatives as well as positives. Others may know enough about him to spot some errors I wouldn’t have.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volodymyr_Zelenskyy

As for his reported $35 million dollar home in Florida, here is a link on the topic. Down below, there is a link to a site that paints a possible different picture about his properties and other assets.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.ibtimes.sg/does-ukraine-president-volodymyr-zelensky-own-35-million-villa-florida-63847

Here is a link to a site that has a completely different estimation of his net worth and assets.

https://caknowledge.com/zelenskyy-net-worth/

He was connected to some investment firms. I can’t say if they were legit, crooked, or if this report is baked.

Right now his popularity in the Ukraine is reported to be in the range of 80%.

Foreign governments have issued citations praising him for his handling of the war.

Some people here hate him with a passion.

I neither like the guy or dislike him.

I see the Ukraine as the underdog here. Russia has a large army inside his nation. It’s doing pretty much what it seems to want to do.

It seems to be paying a heavy toll for it. So is the Ukraine. It’s war.

It’s a shame it came to this.

[AndyJackson]

The end game here is not Ukraine.The Amero fascist global imperialists who made Ukraine their play thing did not have Ukraine as their endgame either. And the universal spread of democracy was not their goal either. They were just using our blood and our treasure for their Great Game and Ukraine got wrecked in the cross fire.

[AndyJackson]

The end game here is not Ukraine.

The Amero fascist global imperialists who made Ukraine their play thing did not have Ukraine as their endgame either. And the universal spread of democracy was not their goal either. They were just using our blood and our treasure for their Great Game and Ukraine got wrecked in the cross fire.

[little jeremiah]

Okay,whatever you think.

I just happen to have my own sources and thoughts.

[little jeremiah]

He can’t believe that because I little me knows the truth about Ukraine. Former Sec Def. cannot be stupid, and Chris Miller is far from stupid, and much more informed than I am.

He’s saying this fluff for some tactical reason.

[Williams]

I fully respect your right to disagree with him, but to conclude anyone who thinks other than you is up to a secret plan, is misguided.

The man simply understands the need to counter Putin, and that the Russian aggression isn’t going to stop in Ukraine.

[Kazan]

Getting more involved will lead to WWIII.

Ukraine is getting its ass kicked. It has zero chance of winning. It's even too late if NATO, God forbid, got involved to keep the Russians from retaining control of the area they have secured.

The best Ukraine could hope for is keep the Western half of the country and some access to the Black Sea. That can be accomplished, as Donald Trump has recommended, by negotiation.

[Kazan]

Of course there is a way out -- Ukraine surrenders, agrees to be a neutral state and recognized Crimea and Donbass as either part of Russia or independent. Problem solved.

Trying to fight that outcome is what will lead to a hot war with Russia or WWIII.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Chris Miller is playing his part. I wouldn’t put too much stock in these public statements. He’s part of President Trump’s cabinet and I’m using present tense here. Lot’s of gamesmanship going on we all may or may not understand completely.

[patriotfury]

Those were Putins own (full context) words at WEF 2021, not mine.

Not me up there with Klause Schwab, that is Putin, and he is calling for rapid global unification of central banks, and rapid global biometric databases for all the people of the world.

The links provided are not new, so the info not developed as a response.

It is however, significant and pertinent to a generational scheme involving the hard left across religious and political structures.

Quigley was the insiders insider.

This is literally only the tiniest fractional tip of the “iceberg”.

Putin was KGB East German spy chief, and worked with both German Chancellor Schroeder, as well as Chancellor Merkel, who was recruited by the East German KGB, and her second husband of which was not only met while she was in Russia, but who was also toed to the KGB.

Former German Chancellor Schroeder as you know, and as a result of Putins effort, is at the top of three of Russia’s largest and most influential energy goliaths, including Nordstream 2.

Trump (and 2019 Zelensky), tried like the dickens to stop Merkel from essentially creating a new regional Berlin/Moscow axis. In part this would have expanded the Moscow/Beijing axis deep into Europe, while marginalizing and ultimately re-subordinating much of the former Warsaw Pact.

The Kremlin and it’s agents are well aware of all these details. It is one reason two (not one) Kremlin agents (for pay of course), turned over the 17 docs which comprised the infamous “Dossier” to a ready and willing MI6 and leftist and foreign “captured” DOJ/FBI.

They had to stop Trump either before, or after he would be elected.