With his speech Before the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump It promoted the point of the second term’s talk about his efforts to resolve multiple conflicts around the world.
“In just seven months, I ended seven modest wars. They said they were in vain,” he said Tuesday, repeating the claims he makes frequently.
Trump helped mediate, but experts say his influence is not as clear as he portrayed.
Let’s take a closer look:
Israel and Iran
It is believed that Trump ended the 12-day war.
June, Israel The attack has begun At the heart of Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders, Tehran says he wants to stop the construction of nuclear weapons. Iran denied that it was trying to do that.
Trump negotiated a ceasefire after instructing American fighters to strike nuclear sites for Iranian Fold, Isfahan and Natanz.
Evelyn Farkas, executive director of Arizona State’s McCain Institute, said Trump should gain credibility to end the war.
“There’s always a chance that once Iran resumes its nuclear weapons programme, it could burn again, but they were still engaged in a hot war with each other,” she said. “And before President Trump got involved and gave them an ultimatum, it didn’t see a real end.”
Lawrence Haas, a senior fellow in US foreign policy at the American Foreign Policy Council, an expert on Israeli-Iran’s tensions, agreed that it would help the US secure a ceasefire. However, he characterized it as a “temporary rest” from the ongoing “everyday cold war” between the two countries, which often involves a flare-up.
Egypt and Ethiopia
This can be described as tension at best, with peace efforts in which the US is not directly involved are stagnant.
The Grand Ethiopia Arnaissance Dam on the Blue Nile has caused friction between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan since its launch more than a decade ago. July, Ethiopia The project has been declared complete. it was It was launched this month.
Egypt and Sudan are opposed to dams. Although most of the water flowing through the Nile comes from Ethiopia, Egypt’s agriculture is almost entirely dependent on the river. Sudan fears flooding and wants to protect its own power generation dam.
During his first term, Trump I tried to mediate a transaction Between Ethiopia and Egypt. He agreed to help Ethiopia over the conflict and was unable to halt. In July he posted about the true social that he helped, “the fight over a massive dam (and) at least there’s peace for now.” However, differences continue, and negotiations between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan are stagnating.
“It would be a terrible exaggeration to say these countries are at war,” Haas said. “I mean, it’s not.”
India and Pakistan
April Murder of tourists In India controlled Kashmir India and Pakistan pushed They reached a ceasefire, although closer to war than they had been in years.
Trump claims that the US brokered the ceasefire, but he said he offered trade concessions. Pakistan thanked Trump and recommended him the Nobel Peace Prize. India has denied Trump’s claims and said there was no conversation between the US and India regarding trade regarding the ceasefire.
Although India played the role of the Trump administration in the ceasefire, Haas and Farcus believe they deserve some credit to help the US stop the fighting.
“I think President Trump played a constructive role from all the accounts, but that may not have been crucial, and I don’t know if we’d define it as a full-fledged war,” Farcus said.
Serbia and Kosovo
The White House lists conflicts between these countries as Trump resolved. However, there was no threat of war between the two neighbors during Trump’s second term.
Kosovo is a province of the former Serbian province that declared independence in 2008. Tensions have continued since then, mainly because NATO-led peacekeeping forces have been deployed to Kosovo and are recognized by more than 100 countries.
During his first term, Trump We negotiated a wide range of transactions Many of the agreed upon between Serbia and Kosovo never took effect.
Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Trump has played an important role in peace efforts among his African neighbors, but he is barely alone and the conflict is not over.
Mineral-rich East Congo is abused for fighting over 100 armed groups. The most powerful is the M23 Rebel Group. It is supported by adjacent Rwanda. Rwanda claims it protects the interests of its territory, with some of the participants 1994 Genocide in Rwanda He fled to the Congo and worked with the Congolese army.
Trump administration’s efforts paid off in June for foreign ministers of Congo and Rwanda. Signed a peace agreement At the White House. However, M23 said it was not directly involved in the US promoted negotiations and could not comply with the terms of the contract without it.
The final step towards peace was intended Another Qatari-building deal between Congo and M23 It will lead to a permanent ceasefire. There was none Official signs of major consultations Between Congo and M23 in final conditions.
Armenia and Azerbaijan
August, Trump Hosted the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan At the White House, they signed a contract aimed at ending decades of conflict. Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinyan called the signed document a “significant milestone.” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Trump for his “miracles.”
The agreement was intended to reaffirm Armenia and Azerbaijan’s commitment to reopening key transport routes and signing a peace treaty. The text of the treaty was initialized at the meeting by the country’s foreign minister and presented preliminary approval. However, the two countries have not yet signed and ratified the contract.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been in fierce territorial conflicts since the Armenian army took control of Nagorno-Karabakh, known internationally as their nearby territory in the early 1990s. In 2020, Azerbaijani forces regained a wide strip of territory. Russia brokered a ceasefire and deployed around 2,000 peacekeepers in the area.
In September 2023, the Azerbaijani forces began a lightning blitz to regain the rest. The two countries have since worked to normalize their ties and sign a peace treaty.
Cambodia and Thailand
Thai and Cambodian officials believe Trump has forced his Asian neighbors to agree to a ceasefire in this brief border dispute this summer.
Cambodia and Thailand have clashed across their shared borders in the past. The latest battle began in July Land mine explosion along the border Five Thai soldiers were injured. Tensions have been rising since May when Cambodian soldiers were killed in a conflict that created a diplomatic rift Thai politics.
The two countries agreed to an unconditional ceasefire in late July during a meeting in Malaysia.
Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim called for an agreement, but he made little progress until Trump intervened. Trump said on social media he warned Thai and Cambodia leaders that the US would not advance the trade deal if hostilities continued. Both countries faced economic hardships, and neither had reached tariff deals with the US, but most of their Southeast Asian neighbors had.
According to Ken Rohhatipanonto, a political analyst and doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan, “President Trump’s decision to condition successful conclusions on these talks about a ceasefire likely played a key role in ensuring that both parties were at the negotiation table.”
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Associated Press reporters Melissa Goldin, John Gambrel, Grant Peck, Dasha Litvinova, Faye Abuergasim, Rajesh Roy and Dusan Stojanovic contributed to the report.
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