Donald Trump is once again claiming that his trade tariffs were a powerful tool for global peacekeeping, asserting that they single-handedly stopped an escalating conflict between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!During an address on Monday, Trump boasted that the threat of tariffs averted multiple wars, specifically citing the India-Pakistan crisis where he claimed “seven planes were shot down.” He stated:
- “If I didn’t have the power of tariffs, you would have at least four of the seven wars raging.”
- He claims to have warned both nations that “there’s not going to be any trade” if they continued fighting.
- Trump also said that the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, Asim Munir, praised him for brokering the truce and saving “millions of lives,” and suggested he should be honored with the Nobel Prize for “ending seven wars.”
- He concluded that America is now a “peacekeeper because of tariffs,” which he also says brought in “hundreds of billions of dollars.”
India’s Rebuttal
India has repeatedly and publicly dismissed Trump’s assertions of external intervention. The Indian government maintains that the understanding on cessation of hostilities was reached solely through direct talks between the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the two militaries.
India has stressed that it did not seek or accept any third-party mediation in the conflict, contradicting Trump’s claim that his trade leverage was the decisive factor.
