'I Use Tariffs to Stop Wars': Trump Once Again Claims He Intervened to Ensure India-Pakistan Ceasefire
New Delhi: US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he used tariffs to end the war between India and Pakistan at the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor.
Despite the Indian government denying the involvement of any third party in the run-up to the ceasefire with Pakistan, Trump has made countless such claims in recent months.
Trump’s latest statement came on Monday (October 6), when he described his use of tariffs as a measure to stop wars.
"Tariffs are very important for the United States. We are a peacekeeper because of tariffs. Not only do we make hundreds of billions of dollars, but we're a peacekeeper because of tariffs. I use tariffs to stop wars. If you look at India and Pakistan, they were ready to go at it. Seven planes were shot down. They were ready to go at it. And they are nuclear powers " said Trump at the Oval Office on Monday, reported Press Trust of India.
Trump added that if he did not use the "power of tariffs", four wars would still be raging.
"And I don't want to say exactly what I said, but what I said was very effective. They stopped. And that was based on tariffs. It was based on trade,” said Trump.
India has consistently denied any third-party intervention. India launched Operation Sindoor on May 7, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam attack that killed 26 civilians.
India differs with this account that the US president mediated to broker the ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Prime minister Narendra Modi, who Trump touts as a great friend of his, has said that no foreign leader asked India to halt Operation Sindoor – its retaliatory strikes of terror bases in Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam attack killing 26 civilians in Kashmir.
India has said that it was talks between the Directors General of Military Operations or DGMOs of the two countries’ respective militaries that led to peace.
The external affairs ministry has also said that there was no third-party intervention.
All of this, however, has not moved Trump from claiming – over 40 times by now – that he was the person who brought piece to this equation, affecting the ceasefire by dangling the threat of ceasing trade ties and setting exorbitant tariffs on both India and Pakistan.
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