Former Pentagon chief: "President Kaczynski and members of the accompanying delegation were brutally murdered by Putin"
SCND May 6, 2022
The Smolensk crash was not an ordinary air accident, but an attack organized by Russia – believes the former US Secretary of Defense. Christopher C. Miller in an interview with Radio WNET, referring to the tragedy of twelve years ago and the war in Ukraine, stated that "Putin cannot be allowed to continue killing".
Christopher C. Miller is a retired U.S. Army colonel. He commanded the 5th Infantry Division. A group of U.S. Special Forces during Operation Desert Storm, as well as in Afghanistan. At the end of President Donald Trump's term, he was the head of the National Counterterrorism Center and also served as secretary of defense.
I had the honor of attending the commemoration of President Kaczyński and the members of the accompanying delegation who were brutally murdered by Putin 12 years ago. — he said at the beginning of the conversation and added:
“We know what Putin is doing. That's why Brandon [Wheeler, executive director of the Foundation for Freedom] and I are here to make sure that the West doesn't forget it, that it remembers the lessons of history that repeat itself. We cannot allow Putin, his totalitarian regime, to continue killing.”
Miller warned that if the world did not stand up to the Russian criminal now, it would have to be done later, but at a greater cost. He also appreciated the role of the Poles – the most active country helping Ukraine.
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The trip to Smolensk was expected to highlight Russia finally admitting culpability in the massacre, after long having blamed it on the Germans, an atrocity they had tried to conceal for over 70 years.
As for the reception committee, it had different ideas. Putin wasn’t looking forward to such an occasion. Into this poisonous reception brew was President Kaczynski’s well-known public criticism of Moscow and Putin, a habit that has ended the lives of others within Russia – and abroad. A few discouraging Russian requirements – that Kaczynski could not attend in any official capacity – did not halt the Poles. Kaczynski would go anyway on non-official, “personal” business. To Russians, such a distinction would be meaningless, not lessening the possible international excoriation of such an event. A problem ripe for a modern, Russian solution: a tragic, ‘natural’ accident.
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