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Global Daily: No more Mr. Nice Guy

29 July 2025 3:37 RaboResearch

President Trump has said “no more Mr. Nice Guy” and is putting his foot down with Putin. On July 14, Trump announced that Putin would have 50 days to come to a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine. If Putin failed to comply, Trump would enforce sanctions on buyers of Russian energy. The original 50-day deadline would have expired on September 2. However, in a conversation with Prime Minister Starmer, Trump said that he was “going to make a new deadline of about 10, 10 or 12 days from today,” which suggests that we could see the new deadline sometime during the tail-end of next week.

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