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New Delhi: US President Donald Trump once again used a global platform to credit himself for halting an India–Pakistan military confrontation, reiterating the claim during his address at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Wednesday.
Since May last year, Trump has repeatedly asserted that he played a decisive role in preventing a full-scale conflict between the two South Asian neighbours. Speaking at Davos, he repeated the assertion, claiming that his intervention stopped the hostilities before they escalated further. The Republican leader also said he had resolved eight wars within a year of beginning his second term in office.
Trump said he inherited a difficult situation from the previous Biden administration, including what he described as an open US–Mexico border, which he claimed to have transformed into “the strongest border in the world.” He then linked this to his broader foreign policy record, arguing that he had successfully settled multiple international conflicts over the past year.
"I've now been working on this war (Russia-Ukraine) for one year, during which time I settled eight other wars, India, Pakistan. Vladimir Putin called me, he said, I can't believe you settled that one(Armenia-Azerbaijan). They were going on for 35 years. I settled into one day. What does the United States get out of all of this work?" he said.
Trump has made the India–Pakistan claim on numerous occasions, stating more than 50 times that he brokered peace after New Delhi launched Operation Sindoor against terror camps in Pakistan following the Pahalgam attack in April last year, in which 26 civilians were killed.
India, however, has consistently rejected any suggestion of third-party mediation. New Delhi has maintained that the decision to end hostilities was taken bilaterally through military channels at the Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) level, without acknowledging any role played by Trump or the United States.
