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‘I already know the answer’ — Trump to shorten Ukraine deadline for Putin to 10–12 days

July 28, 2025 3:14 pm

Editor's note: This story was updated with comments made by U.S. President Donald Trump.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on July 28 that he aims to shorten the 50-day deadline he had set to Russian President Vladimir Putin for a peace deal in Ukraine, expressing disappointment with the Kremlin leader.

The U.S. president was referring to his July 14 warning that Washington would impose up to 100% in secondary tariffs on Russia unless Moscow agreed to a peace deal in Ukraine within the next 50 days.

"We thought we had that settled numerous times, and then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kyiv and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever," Trump said alongside U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the Turnberry golf club in Scotland.

"So we are going to have to look, and I am going to reduce that 50 days that I gave him to a lesser number because I think I already know the answer — what is going to happen."

Trump said he now plans to impose a 10- to 12-day deadline starting July 28. "There's no reason in waiting," he said. "It's 50 days, I wanted to be generous, but we just don't see any progress being made."

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If you disagree with him then per him you are a liar.

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No, doubleb isn't a liar. Just you,

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I have never seen anything quite like it. They are Ukraine Firsters. If it wouldn't Russia you probably would not see the passion. When you combine the boomer cold war hate for the Soviet Union with the leftist hatred for Russia that developed after their once darling Soviet Union (you may be aware of the love for the Soviets from leftists in the 60's/70's.) fell you have quite strange bed fellows. Russia has been made into the ultimate boogie man for the left in part by the lies and criminal actions of Obama and his group of criminals, the MSM and neocons through the Russia hoax. That treasonous action is being brought to light now. Obama will escape but Brennan, Clapper, Comey, HRC and the rest should die in prison for their actions.

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I think we have turned our world into this black and white, good or bad, oppressed vs oppressor centric world instead of seeing people on a spectrum.

Russia is unequivocally bad. But they aren't a cartoon supervillain either. But since they are in the 'bad' camp (and let me be clear, they are in that camp no question) they must be stopped and opposed no matter the cost.

You also see the opposite for the "good" camp... they must be supported no matter what. I'm on a Civil War kick currently so I'll give President Grant as an example... he had some objectively good moral stances and initiatives as President, and because of those you're seeing revisionist historians try to paint him as a good President when he objectively wasn't.

Its effectively seeing the world in binary. We might as well all be robots like Cope and Cypher I guess.

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I have never seen anything quite like it. They are Ukraine Firsters

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Wrong

I put America first and putting America first includes hoping Russia fails to rebuild its empire and eventually becomes less imperialistic and less combative with the US.

Russia is now close to completing its encirclement of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad. FIghting is currently ongoing on the outskirts of Rodynske just north of Myrnohrad.

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Grant's administration was one of the most corrupt in US history. It was scandalous. Grant's problem was his corrupt friends/cronies. Nothing but thieves and swindlers.

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Well and that's kind of what you would expect from a General turned politician. He ran the war effort well, but dealing with politicians and being an administrator in that sense is a different skillset. We didn't have statesmen generals at that point, and you could argue at an institutional level we never did or even tried to. I think he was a good man for the most part, but a bad President.

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Foreign intervention is how the British were defeated, along with Foreign MONEY. First the French fleet then French and Dutch money.

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The British treated the American revolution as more of a peripheral conflict than the existential battle that it was for us. They didn't even really take it all that seriously until it was too late, and by then it was a global conflict and they had other more economically important areas to defend than the colonies. In fact it was more embarrassing than it was existential for them.

People will compare it to China and Taiwan's seemingly inevitable conflict, or even the war with Russia and Ukraine, but its really not anywhere close to that. Ukraine is more important to Russia, and Taiwan to China, than the US colonies were to Britain.

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less combative with the US.

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Since 1991 no Russians have killed any US troops in combat.

The US killed Wagner mercenaries in an air strike in Syria in 2018, but no members of the actual Russian military.

The US was one of Russia's largest trade partners until 2014.

Russian action against Ukraine isn't being combative toward the US. Its being combative toward Ukraine.

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Russia fails to rebuild its empire

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This is a fantasy. Russia doesn't expect to do this (no matter what bullshittery they put on their TV networks). And even if they did, they were incapable even before 2022. The US would crush them within months even without NATO.

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The US was one of Russia's largest trade partners until 2014.

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If Putin wasn't dreaming of being Peter the Great part 2, they still would be and they'd be a whole lot better off.

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If Putin wasn't dreaming of being Peter the Great part 2, they still would be and they'd be a whole lot better off.

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Agreed on the latter