US President Donald Trump on Monday asserted that the world would have witnessed six major wars, including a conflict between India and Pakistan, had he not been in the White House.
Speaking during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at his scenic Turnberry resort in Scotland, Trump claimed his leadership was the key factor that prevented multiple wars across the globe.
"If I weren’t around, you’d have, right now, six major wars going on. India would be fighting with Pakistan," Trump reportedly said, according to The Guardian.
Trump suggested that his diplomatic interventions, often through trade leverage, played a pivotal role in preventing escalations. His comments come as Thailand and Cambodia recently announced a ceasefire.
India has time and again rejected Trump's claim that he stopped the military conflict between the two nuclear powers.
Speaking in the Lok Sabha earlier today, External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar also vehemently asserted that Washington did not play any role in ending the India-Pakistan conflict in May and said there was no phone call between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump during those crucial weeks.
He said Modi had a phone conversation with Trump on April 22, the day of the Pahalgam attack, and another on June 17, when the prime minister was in Canada. There was no call in between, he noted.
Jaishankar also said trade did not figure in any discussion between India and the United States during that period.
At no stage in any conversation with the US was there any linkage with trade and what was going on, he said.
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