President Joe Biden’s administration has conceded that Ukrainian military units may be suffering heavy losses of troops and US-supplied weaponry as they ramp up attacks against Russian forces in the Donbass region.

Speaking in a CNN interview on Thursday evening, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said he was reluctant to discuss specifics on casualties amid increasingly fierce fighting near Artyomovsk (known as Bakhmut in Ukraine). Asked by host Wolf Blitzer about reports of severe Ukrainian losses of men and equipment, he deferred to Ukrainian officials to comment on such details.

There was once a time when Hungary was the country in Eastern Europe with an ax to grind with the then USSR; however, that was then, 1956; times have changed, and so have modern-day realities. At least one EU leader is thinking: Ukraine is a lost cause, and why then to prolong the death and suffering?

The headline sums it up accurately, “Orban Says Ukraine Can’t Win War as he justifies Veto on EU Assistance”. Speaking in a Bloomberg interview at the Qatar Economic Forum, Orban argued that “Ukraine’s military effort is doomed and sending further aid will only lead to more deaths.”

BY Henry Kamens

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(FIND YOUR OWN LINK TO TUCKER ON TWITTER. NOW GATHERING HALF A MILLION VIEWS PER FIVE MINUTES)

The US has been urged to disclose evidence of UFOs after a whistleblower former intelligence official said the government has possession of “intact and partially intact” alien vehicles.

The former intelligence official David Grusch, who led analysis of unexplained anomalous phenomena (UAP) within a US Department of Defense agency, has alleged that the US has craft of non-human origin.

During his tenure as President of (what remains of) Ukraine, Zelensky destroyed Ukraine, but achieved many great things…for Russia. Here are his main achievements in no particular order:

• By being elected with a promise to end hostilities, and then immediately escalating the conflict in the east, he completely undermined what was left of Ukrainian democracy. He further demolished Ukraine's civic realm by banning all state media except one government channel, banning all opposition and all Russian news sources and, in effect, establishing a totalitarian dictatorship.

by Dmitry Orlov

WE HAVE A FEW GREAT REBELS AMONGST US, PEOPLE PUSHING CAUSES THAT ARE UNPALATABLE TO THE GENERAL TREND OF INCREASING SOCIAL DEBAUCHERY, UNDER THE THEME OF HUMAN RIGHTS TO BUGGER WHICH HOLE WE CHOOSE — AND PHILOSOPHICAL BELIEFS TO WAGE WARS ON DEMAND.

It is hard to know which one to start with. We shall add THREE main characters to OUR usual list of anti-establishment honourable scribes — from John Pilger to Thierry Meyssan... Namely, J K Rowling, Tucker Carlson and Mel Gibson as an entrée against the unsavoury crappy world of rotten news that the Main Stream Media is peddling every day…

Take Tucker. Tucker on Twitter started to come on line yesterday. Already, the MSM is at his throat. Here is the pissy Guardian’s Martin Pengelly….

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zR2zdnNdI

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Western mainstream media:

The Russians blew up their own NordStream pipeline

The Kremlin ordered a drone strike on the Kremlin

Russia blew up the Nova Kakhovka dam to destroy the defences they had spent over half a year building and deny water supplies to Crimea

The BBC does not hesitate: WE KNOW... is equivalent to WHAT WE DON'T WANT YOU TO KNOW....

An INCIDENT? Bloody hell! you would not think that a flood of such magnitude with a breech that could not happen "naturally" but had to be done by DAMBUSTERS is a WAR CRIME, A TERRORIST ACT, A SAVAGE BARBARIC ACT.... And who benefits has been the question that no-one in the Western media answers... because as we know:

The Russians blew up their own NordStream pipeline

The Kremlin ordered a drone strike on the Kremlin

THE WESTERN MEDIA IS PUSHING THE BULLSHIT BEYOND THE CREDIBLE, BUT FEAR NOT, THEY HAVE PERFECTLY POLISHED EXPLANATIONS AS TO WHY THE RUSSIANS BLEW UP THE EFFING DAM... WE KNOW... 

ABC: On the morning the Nova Kakhovka dam was blown up in southern Ukraine, Hanna Zarudnia woke to both shelling and flooding. 

"I felt very loud shelling during the night," she told the ABC.

 "I spent the last three nights in the basement.

"Antonivka [on the outskirts of Kherson] was heavily bombed that night. In the morning, I came out and saw that the neighbours had no roofs."

Professional golfers have expressed their anger at the PGA and DP World Tour announcing a merger with LIV Golf.

When an international poetic event like the "Poetry Market" decides to offer the honorary presidency of its fortieth edition, dedicated to Caribbean poetry, to someone who is precisely from the West Indies (as we used to say.. .), whose work in this field of creation has achieved by its quality, its beauty, its influence and its richness an international recognition which equals it to that of an Aimé Césaire, to take only one point of comparison, we can only applaud with both hands and congratulate ourselves on a wise and judicious choice that does honor to those who expressed it.

BY Jacques-Francois BONALDI

Last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the country’s National Security Commission in stark terms of the grave security concerns facing the nation.

According to Xi, Beijing needs to stay “keenly aware” of the challenges facing national security and correctly grasp major related issues. He urged officials to be ready for “worst-case and most extreme scenarios” – words that a lot of commentators have described as “pessimistic” in regard to the development of relations between China and the United States.

The attack on the Novaya Kakhovka hydroelectric dam in Russia’s Kherson Region qualifies as a war crime, European Council President Charles Michel has claimed. He insisted that Russia was responsible for the incident. 

“Shocked by the unprecedented attack of the Nova Kakhovka dam,” Michel wrote on Twitter on Tuesday. “The destruction of civilian infrastructure clearly qualifies as a war crime – we will hold Russia and its proxies accountable.” 

Michel said he would raise the issue at the June meeting of the European Council and would propose more assistance to the flooded areas. 

European Union officials are having a meltdown, all because Twitter CEO Elon Musk has withdrawn the platform from a “voluntary” EU code of conduct for tech firms to combat so-called “disinformation.” And they have yet to cite a single actual example of it.

Ukraine is “very well prepared” for its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russian forces, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley told CNN on Monday. However, Ukrainian forces suffered heavy losses in a multi-pronged attack earlier in the day, and Milley cautioned that it’s “too early to tell” if the offensive will achieve its goals.

Citing the “training, ammunition, advice, intelligence, etc” provided to Kiev by its Western backers, Milley claimed that Ukraine is “very well prepared” to retake territory from Russian forces.