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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has hailed Donald Trump as the “president of peace” and has repeated the claim that he got India and Pakistan to agree to a ceasefire in May.
Rubio said that the direct involvement of the Trump administration was responsible for the ceasefire.
“When India and Pakistan went to war, we got involved directly, and the president was able to deliver on that peace,” said Rubio in an interview with Raymond Arroyo of EWTN’s ‘The World Over’.
On May 7, India launched ‘Operation Sindoor’ in response to the terrorist attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam the previous month. After four days of fighting in which India struck a host of terrorist sites and Pakistani military targets, Pakistan requested a ceasefire on May 10 that India granted.
Trump has maintained that his intervention led to the ceasefire whereas India has maintained that India had agreed to a ceasefire after Pakistan requested it after being battered in Indian strikes for four days.
Trump and his allies have projected the US president as a peacemaker and have demanded the Nobel peace prize for him. Rubio listed the other conflicts in which Trump has claimed credit for truce in his second term.
“Cambodia and Thailand more recently; Azerbaijan and Armenia, hopefully – we’re taping this here today, but on Friday of this week, we’ll be here to sign an agreement and the beginning of a peace deal there. DRC-Rwanda – a 30-year war, 7 million people killed – we were able to bring them here to sign it. Obviously, work needs to – peace is not permanent. It always has to be worked and maintained,” said Rubio.
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Even though Trump and his supporters have pitched the president as a peacemaker, the fact remains that he has failed to end the war in Ukraine, which he said he would end within 24 hours of assuming office. He has also failed to end the war in the Gaza Strip. Instead of ending wars, he plunged the United States into a new war with Iran in June when US warplanes struck Iranian nuclear sites.