US President Donald Trump has once again repeated that his power of tariffs helped prevent multiple global wars, including one between India and Pakistan. He claimed that his trade tactics turned America into a peacekeeping nation.
“If I didn’t have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging,” Trump said during an address on Monday. “If you look at India and Pakistan, they were ready to go at it. Seven planes were shot down… I don’t want to say exactly what I said, but what I said was very effective.”
Trump said the United States had become rich and powerful again under his watch, adding that his trade leverage helped stop wars worldwide. “Not only did we make hundreds of billions of dollars, but we’re a peacekeeper because of tariffs,” he said.
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Trump has been repeatedly claiming that he ended the India-Pakistan crisis following India’s Operation Sindoor, despite New Delhi’s Ministry of External Affairs having publicly dismissed such assertions multiple times.
Last week, Trump had claimed that he warned India and Pakistan to end the conflict or else he would end trade relations. “India and Pakistan were going at it. I called them both… They had just shot down seven planes… I said, if you do this, there’s not going to be any trade, and I stopped the war. It was raging for four days,” Trump added.
He also said that Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, Asim Munir, praised his role for brokering a truce with India.
Trump also said that he should be honoured with the Nobel Prize for “ending seven wars.”
“We stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia,” he said, before listing other countries such as Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo, Serbia, Israel, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and the Congo. “Sixty per cent of them were stopped because of trade,” he added.
India, however, has consistently denied Trump’s version of events, maintaining that the understanding on cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations of the two militaries.
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With inputs from agencies
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