{"id":1449829,"date":"2022-04-22T08:12:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449829"},"modified":"2022-04-22T08:12:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:12:08","slug":"former-secretary-of-defense-chris-miller-warns-ukraine-crisis-could-turn-into-world-war-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-secretary-of-defense-chris-miller-warns-ukraine-crisis-could-turn-into-world-war-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Secretary of Defense Chris Miller Warns Ukraine Crisis Could Turn Into World War III"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-secretary-of-defense-chris-miller-warns-ukraine-crisis-could-turn-into-world-war-iii%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1449829&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2022-04\/GettyImages-1240069564.jpg?h=8dff5093&#038;itok=sL0Iq1pw\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Trump administration acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller on Wednesday applauded Ukraine for executing what may be the &#8220;most successful military campaign&#8221; in history, but he warned that if the West does not &#8220;stand up&#8221; against Russian President Vladimir Putin, World War Three III could start \u2014 if it hasn&#8217;t already.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fear if we don&#8217;t get our act together &#8230; this will be World War III,&#8221; Miller said, adding, &#8220;Many people think it already is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/europe\/kremlin-threatens-nuclear-measures-if-sweden-and-finland-join-nato\">threatened<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/white-house\/biden-accuses-putin-committing-genocide-ukraine\">war crimes<\/a> in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we don&#8217;t stand up right now and fight back against Putin, it&#8217;s gonna get a lot worse,&#8221; Miller told &#8220;Just the News, Not Noise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin has <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/russia-debunks-war-crimes-claims-army-researchers-aims-prove-atrocities-occurred\">denied<\/a>\u00a0accusations of committing &#8220;genocide,&#8221; but Miller said the world needs to learn from history.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We could kind of turn the other cheek for a while, but at the end of the day, we&#8217;re gonna have to stand up to this guy more forcefully,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The United States and much of the world have <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/world\/us-announces-new-sanctions-putins-adult-children-bans-all-new-investments-russia\">imposed<\/a> numerous sanctions on Russia since the invasion of Ukraine began, while Putin remains undeterred.<\/p>\n<p>Miller said he has directly recognized Ukrainian leaders for their military strength against Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I was talking to the Ukrainian leadership, I had to remind them that they&#8217;ve executed the most successful military campaign in modern military history, if not forever, in military history,&#8221; he told show cohosts John Solomon and Amanda Head.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Putin seriously underestimated the will and spirit of Ukrainian people,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;And if anything, it&#8217;s even more profound than it was before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said one of his biggest takeaways from visiting Kyiv is that Ukrainian leaders told him: &#8220;We&#8217;ll do the fight. We just need the weapons and the equipment.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Miller stressed that the Ukrainian military needs more supplies to fight Russia.<\/p>\n<p>The former Trump administration defense chief said that Kyiv authorities told him they are worried the world will &#8220;forget&#8221; about Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said that Ukraine&#8217;s guerrilla warfare and power given the equipment they have will set an example for future battles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not all about these mega-expensive weapon systems,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It really comes down to these unmanned aerial vehicles and these rocket systems.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some military experts believe that Putin has already <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/security\/putin-has-lost-war-donbas-battle-begins-kremlin-faces-failed-ukraine-strategy\">lost the war<\/a> in Ukraine as Russian troops are &#8220;regrouping&#8221; in the Donbas region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump administration acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller on Wednesday applauded Ukraine for executing what may be the &#8220;most successful military campaign&#8221; in history, but he warned that if the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}