Trump Claims He Stopped India-Pakistan Conflict With Trade, Seeks Nobel Prize for ‘Ending Seven Wars’

Washington (Rajeev Sharma): US President Donald Trump has once again claimed credit for resolving tensions between India and Pakistan, asserting that his trade diplomacy helped prevent conflict earlier this year. Speaking at the American Cornerstone Institute Founder’s Dinner on Saturday, Trump said he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for “ending seven wars.”

“On the world stage, we are respected at a level that we have never been respected before,” Trump said. “We are forging peace agreements, and we are stopping wars. So we stopped wars between India and Pakistan, Thailand and Cambodia.”

The President claimed that trade negotiations were central to his approach. “Think of India and Pakistan. And you know how I stopped that— with trade. They want to trade. And I have great respect for both leaders. But when you look at these wars we’ve stopped— India, Pakistan, Thailand, Cambodia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Rwanda and the Congo— 60 per cent of them were stopped because of trade.”

Trump said he made it clear to India and Pakistan that “we’re not going to do any trade if you’re going to fight and they have nuclear weapons. They stopped.”

He also linked his claims to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, noting that he was advised a peace deal there could secure him the Nobel Prize. “I said, ‘What about the seven others? I should get a Nobel Prize for each one.’ They said, ‘But if you stop Russia and Ukraine, sir, you should be able to get the Nobel.’ I said I stopped seven wars. That’s one war, and that’s a big one.”

Trump admitted that resolving the Russia-Ukraine conflict has proved more difficult than expected despite his personal ties with Vladimir Putin. “I thought that would be the easiest one, but we’ll get it done one way or the other,” he said.