Trump’s Deadline for Putin Was a Joke (w. Caolan Robertson)
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The Bulwark
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Putin just blew past Trump’s “50-day deadline” and nothing changed. While Russia escalates strikes on EU and NATO-linked targets, Ukrainian kids are starting the school year in bunkers under drone fire. In Moscow, classrooms hand out rifles instead of flowers. On the frontlines, Ukraine is fighting back by targeting Russian oil refineries starving Putin’s war machine of cash.
Caolan Roberston YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@CaolanReports
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| 0:22.1 | Tfactor Ukraine correspondent. Kaelin Robertson is coming at us from. Where are |
| 0:26.5 | you right now? Are you in Kiev? I'm in the capital. Yeah, I'm in Cave now. |
| 0:29.4 | And he's just back from the front lines. And we were texting last week about, you know, |
| 0:35.7 | about the offensive that Russia has been just bombarding |
| 0:41.4 | onto Ukrainian civilians and otherwise. We thought it would be appropriate today to get together |
| 0:46.8 | to give you guys an update because Donald Trump's latest deadline for Putin, his latest 50-day |
| 0:52.9 | deadline expired. And so now was supposed to be the moment |
| 0:56.6 | where Big Tough Trump stood up to Putin and said, no, you're not allowed to do this war anymore. |
| 1:01.0 | The deadline's expired. And just a few minutes ago, I saw that he said that he was very disappointed. |
| 1:07.0 | He's just very disappointed. So it doesn't seem like the deadline had a lot of teeth. So, |
| 1:12.1 | Kailen, why don't you just kind of take the lens back here. You know, we had the since we last |
| 1:16.7 | spoke, we had the summit, whatever you want to call it, in Alaska. We had the European leaders |
| 1:21.1 | and Zelensky go to D.C. And in the wake of all that, like what has been happening on the ground in Ukraine? |
| 1:29.1 | Well, look, I've been talking endlessly. |
| 1:30.8 | Any rhetoric that comes out of the Kremlin about peace is just delay tactics so they can take |
| 1:34.9 | more ground in this country. |
| 1:36.1 | And Donald Trump keeps falling for this. |
| 1:37.6 | The Alaska Summit was a win for Russia because there were American soldiers rolling out |
| 1:41.0 | a red carpet for a dictator. |
| 1:42.9 | And that was a great opportunity for |
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