President Donald Trump has been a peace manager since returning to the White House in January and has promoted his efforts to end global conflict.
In a meeting between Ukrainian President Voldimi Zelenki and other European leaders, Trump has repeatedly said that he has been working hard to stop multiple wars but has not identified which one.
“I’ve played six wars, I’ve finished six wars, Trump said In an oval office with Zelenskyy. He added later: “If you look at the six deals I settled this year, they were all in war. I didn’t put a ceasefire.”
He raised the numbers Tuesday, telling Fox & Friends, “We’ve ended the seven wars.”
But while Trump has helped mediate relationships in many of these countries, experts say his influence is not as clear as he claims.
Let’s take a closer look at the conflict.
Israel and Iran
It is believed that Trump ended the 12-day war.
Israel The attack has begun At the heart of Iran’s nuclear program and military leaders in June, Iran wanted to stop building nuclear weapons.
Trump negotiated a ceasefire between Israel and Iran shortly after instructing American fighters to attack Iranian Fold, Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites. He publicly plagued both countries to maintain a ceasefire.
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 turn back, 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 “daily cold war” between two enemies, often accompanied by flare-ups.
Egypt and Ethiopia
This can be described as tension at best, and peace efforts do not directly involve the US – is at a dead end.
The Grand Ethiopia Arnaissance Dam on the Blue Nile has caused friction between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan since the power generation project was announced more than a decade ago. July, Ethiopia The project has been declared completeThe inauguration ceremony for September has been set.
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. Meanwhile, Sudan fears flooding and wants to protect its own power dam.
During his first term, Trump I tried to mediate a transaction Between Ethiopia and Egypt, they were unable to agree. He suspended aid to Ethiopia over the conflict. 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. However, India has denied Trump’s claims and said there was no conversation between the US and India regarding trade regarding the ceasefire.
Although India has downplayed the Trump administration’s role 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 with these countries as one Trump settled, but there was no threat of war between the two neighbors during Trump’s second term, nor a significant contribution from Trump to improve their relationship.
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, backed by neighbouring Rwanda. 1994 Rwanda’s Genocide 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 US strengthening negotiations and could not comply with the terms of the agreement that did not involve it.
The final step towards peace was intended Another Qatari-building deal between Congo and M23 It will lead to a permanent ceasefire. However, as the fighting still rages, the Monday deadline for the Qatar-led contract was overlooked, and there were no official signs of great talks between the Congo and the M23 in the final terms.
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Trump hosted Armenia and Azerbaijani leaders at the White House this month, where he signed a contract aimed at ending decades-long conflict between the two countries. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan called the signed document a “significant milestone” and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev welcomed Trump with playing “miracles.”
The two countries have signed an agreement aimed at reassessing 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 foreign minister of the country, indicating preliminary approval. However, the two countries have not yet signed and ratified the contract.
Armenia and Azerbaijan have been trapped in fierce territorial conflicts since the Armenian army took control of Nagorno-Karabakh, known internationally as its 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 that 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.” ___ Associated Press reporters Jon Gambrell, Grant Peck, Dasha Litvinova, Fay Abuelgasim, Rajesh Roy and Dusan Stojanovic contributed.
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