2025-12-11: Ukraine Roundup

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C. Uday Bhaskar (2025-12-11). Putin's visit to India reveals the anxieties of a changing world order. scmp.com Russian President Vladimir Putin's two-day state visit to New Delhi last week, for the 23rd Russia-India Summit, was heavy on optics, symbolism and multilayered signals, while tangible outcomes were relatively modest. | First and foremost, Putin signalled to the West that Russia is not isolated, despite the US-led criticism of the war his government has unleashed against Ukraine since 2022. In an unusual departure from customary diplomatic practice, three European ambassadors to India — from…

Alina Ramos Martin (2025-12-11). Hungary boycotts meeting on possible Ukrainian accession to the EU. plenglish.com Budapest, Dec 11 (Prensa Latina) Hungarian Minister for European Union (EU) Affairs, János Bóka, announced his abstention from participating in an informal meeting on Ukraine's possible accession to the bloc, the MTI news agency reported.

Agence France-Presse (2025-12-11). Proposals on territorial concessions by Ukraine sent to Trump, Germany's Merz says. scmp.com German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump had been sent a proposal on territorial concessions Ukraine is ready to make to end its war against Russia. | Merz said the proposal was sent after he and other European leaders had spoken by phone with Trump on Wednesday.

Nick Cleveland-Stout (2025-12-11). Think tanker altered Ukraine war map before big Polymarket payout. responsiblestatecraft.org On November 15, as Russian forces were advancing on the outskirts of the town of Myrnohrad in eastern Ukraine, retail investors placed risky bets in real time on the battle using Polymarket, a gambling platform that allows users to bet on predictive markets surrounding world events. If Russia took the city by nightfall — an event that seemed exceedingly unlikely to most observers — a handful of retail investors stood to earn a profit of as much as 33,000% on the battle from the comfort of their homes.When nightfall came, these longshot gamblers miraculously won big, though not because Russia took…

Mark J Willière (2025-12-11). Trump Furious as Zelenskyy Unveils Europe-Backed Peace Plan That Rejects US Concessions. thinktank.pk As the Russia-Ukraine war drags into its fourth year, Kyiv's latest diplomatic maneuver on December 11, 2025, has sent shockwaves through global capitals. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the submission of a revised 20-point peace framework to the Trump administration — a document honed with European allies to counter what many view as a U.S.-heavy, Russia-friendly …

Vijay Prashad (2025-12-11). A Far-Right Tide is Washing Over Latin America. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Nov 29, 2025 | The far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina's Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a toxic sweat that has spread across the region. It would be easy to say that this is the impact of Donald Trump's own brand of neo-fascism, but this is not true. The far right has much deeper pedigrees, linked to the defense of the oligarchical families that have roots in the colonial era across the virreinatos (viceroyalties) from New Spain to Rio de la Plata. Certainly, these…

infobrics (2025-12-11). 'The US should leave NATO' – Republican congressman. infobrics.org Criticism of NATO has been growing among politicians in the US.

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