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Ukraine Reporter TORCHES Marco Rubio’s Excuses Over Starlink Slowdown (w/ Caolan Robertson)
LongNews & Politics
Published Oct 18, 2026
Views
307K
Likes
10K
Speed /h
7K
+24h
+45K
Early catch
Updated 12:45 PMBeat 90% of videos its age, 6 h after upload.
- Vs usual
- –
- Views/h now
- 349
- Channel size
- –
Black: this video’s views at each read. Shaded: the median to the top 10% (the board’s reach bar) of all videos of its format at the same age; dashed: their top 1%.
Views over time
Views gained each hour, UTC- Views
- 306.5K
- Best hour
- +16K
- At 24 hours
- 290.1K
- At 7 days
- –
35 of 35 hours read. A gap is an hour we didn’t read close enough to say, not an hour without views.
viralshooter analytics
Our calculations on YouTube API data. Not YouTube metrics.
Position
- Speed percentile
- 22 / 100
- Category percentile
- 88 / 100
- ×base
- ×3
- Channel typical
- 89K · average
Dynamics
- Phase
- fading
- Acceleration
- 0.06×
- Momentum
- ×0.51
- Decay
- 0.94
- Speed half-life
- 45h
Engagement
- Like rate
- 3.31%
- Comments per 1k views
- 3.92
- Engagement rate
- 3.70%
- Views per subscriber
- 0.17×
- Crossed a language border
- No
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| Region | Chart | Best rank | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland | Category chart | #34 | Oct 19 |
| Denmark | Category chart | #49 | Oct 19 |
42h
From the YouTube record
Fields of the video as the YouTube API returns them.
- Published
- Oct 18, 2026, 6:30 PM
- Duration
- 18:33
- Category
- News & Politics
- Audio language
- English (en-US)
- Title language
- English (en)
- Captions
- No
- Definition
- HD
- Format
- 2D
- License
- Standard YouTube
- Licensed content
- Yes
- Embeddable
- Yes
- Made for kids
- No
- Age-restricted
- No
- Paid promotion
- No
- Public stats
- Yes
Topics
- Politics
- Society
Title and description in 21 languages
- Arabic
- Bangla
- English
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Italian
- Hebrew
- Japanese
- Korean
- Malayalam
- Punjabi
- Polish
- Russian
- Tamil
- Telugu
- Ukrainian
- German
- Spanish
- French
- Dutch
- Portuguese
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- bulwark
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Description
Tim Miller talks with journalist Caolan Robertson, reporting from Ukraine’s front lines, about disruptions to the satellite communications Ukrainian soldiers depend on, Marco Rubio’s baffling explanation, and the deadly consequences of losing that lifeline. They also discuss Russia’s escalating attacks on civilians, Ukraine bringing the fight to Russian territory, and how Trump’s relationship with Putin is being viewed by Ukrainians. Follow Caolan’s independent reporting from Ukraine: https://caolan.report/ Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/joinShow all
Tim Miller talks with journalist Caolan Robertson, reporting from Ukraine’s front lines, about disruptions to the satellite communications Ukrainian soldiers depend on, Marco Rubio’s baffling explanation, and the deadly consequences of losing that lifeline. They also discuss Russia’s escalating attacks on civilians, Ukraine bringing the fight to Russian territory, and how Trump’s relationship with Putin is being viewed by Ukrainians. Follow Caolan’s independent reporting from Ukraine: https://caolan.report/ Become a Bulwark Youtube Plus Member here - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG4Hp1KbGw4e02N7FpPXDgQ/join
◆ Calculated by viralshooter · all other figures from the YouTube API