US President Donald Trump all however nominated himself for the Nobel Peace Prize on Tuesday, claiming in his handle to the United Nations that he has “ended seven un-endable wars,” which “were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed.”
“I ended seven wars, and in all cases, they were raging, with countless thousands of people being killed. This includes Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda — a vicious, violent war that was — Pakistan and India, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Armenia and Azerbaijan,” Trump stated in his remarks.
The two conflicts that Trump has up to now put the most efforts into ending – Israel’s warfare in Gaza and Russia’s warfare on Ukraine – proceed to rage with no indicators of easing, regardless of the myriads of deadlines, threats and guarantees he has made to get ceasefire agreements.
But the failure to get a deal in the Middle East and Ukraine has not stopped Trump from boasting about the conflicts he stated he ended.
Trump has repeated this declare since earlier this summer time, and the White House offered a listing of the seven claimed bilateral agreements final month.
While he definitely contributed to brokering a few agreements between long-standing foes, his function in securing ceasefires in a few of the different conflicts he has boasted about ending has been disputed by a few of the nations concerned.
And then in fact there are the wars that weren’t occurring when he claims to have ended them.
Armenia and Azerbaijan
Trump definitely deserves credit score for hosting the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House in August, the place they finalized a peace settlement, which they first announced some five months earlier.
The two former Soviet republics had been locked in a battle over Nagorno-Karabakh for nearly 4 a long time. The breakaway area in the Caucasus Mountains was house to round 120,000 ethnic Armenians and whereas it’s internationally thought-about as a part of Azerbaijan, it was managed by Armenian separatists since the fall of the Soviet Union.
That modified in 2023, when a lightning 24-hour assault noticed Azerbaijan regain complete management of Nagorno-Karabakh, prompting the area’s ethnic Armenian inhabitants to flee to Armenia inside every week.
Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev each praised Trump for his function in getting the deal signed – even when he later, whereas speaking about it, confused Armenia for Albania and referred to as Azerbaijan “Aberbaijan.”
While undoubtedly a step ahead, the settlement has not been ratified by both nation. Several points stay to be resolved – most notably, Azerbaijan is demanding that Armenia adjustments its structure – a transfer that might possible be rejected by Armenian voters in a referendum.
Cambodia and Thailand
The 508-mile (817-kilometer) border between Thailand and Cambodia has been liable to flareups of violence for many years.
Cambodia has beforehand sought a ruling from the UN’s International Court of Justice over disputed areas, however Thailand stated it doesn’t acknowledge the courtroom’s jurisdiction and claims that some areas alongside the border have been by no means totally demarcated.
The most up-to-date spherical of violence erupted in July when at the least 38 individuals, largely civilians, have been killed and lots of of 1000’s have been compelled to flee their houses.
Trump held separate cellphone calls with the leaders of the two nations, threatening to cease commerce negotiations in the event that they didn’t conform to a ceasefire.
The two sides met in Malaysia inside days and agreed to a ceasefire. However, the battle over the contested border stays unresolved – although Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet stated that he nominated the US president for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Israel and Iran
When the US president announced a ceasefire between Israel and Iran after 12 days of preventing in June, it regarded a bit untimely as each nations continued with their ultimate assaults.
However, the two nations did later endorse the ceasefire.
The direct confrontation between the long-times foes began when Israel launched shock assaults on Iranian army and nuclear amenities that killed distinguished politicians, army leaders and nuclear scientists. Iran responded with waves of missile and drone strikes in opposition to Israeli cities and army websites.
While Trump made it clear he was initially against Israel attacking Iran instantly, the US joined and bombed Iran’s fundamental nuclear amenities with its uniquely highly effective “bunker busting” bombs.
Like with a lot of the different conflicts he claims to have ended, Trump’s function in bringing the violence to an end is unclear. No peace settlement or a agency deal on the way forward for Iran’s nuclear program has been reached and each Iran and Israel have threatened one another since then.
India and Pakistan
India and Pakistan acquired embroiled in their most intense conflict in a long time in May, after India fired missiles throughout 9 websites in Pakistan in response to a bloodbath of vacationers in Indian-administered Kashmir, which India blamed on Pakistan.
The battle was raging for a number of days when, out of the blue, Trump introduced on social media that the US had brokered an end to the preventing.
There are conflicting accounts of how the ceasefire was negotiated. Islamabad praised US involvement and nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for what it stated was “decisive diplomatic intervention.”
India downplayed Trump’s involvement, saying as a substitute the ceasefire was agreed “directly between the two countries.” India has fiercely resisted any international intervention on the concern of Kashmir, the disputed area over which India and Pakistan fought a number of wars, insisting it’s lower than different nations to become involved.
Rwanda and the DRC
When the representatives of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Rwanda signed a peace settlement brokered by the US in June, it was hailed by Trump as “a Great Day for Africa and, quite frankly, a Great Day for the World!”
However, there’s little to counsel that the battle – one in every of the most protracted and complicated conflicts in the world – is easing in any means.
Scores of militia teams which have fought for 3 a long time are nonetheless participating in lethal preventing,
NCS visited the rebel-held metropolis of Goma, house to greater than 2 million individuals, earlier this month. Local individuals, support staff and insurgent leaders instructed NCS the preventing and the hardships attributable to it proceed.
The identical week, the United Nations Human Rights Office (OHCHR) launched a fact-finding report on the escalation of hostilities between January and July 2025 in North and South Kivu, the provinces in japanese DR Congo’s the place two of its largest cities Goma and Bukavu are situated.
Egypt and Ethiopia
It is unclear how precisely Trump ended this battle, since Egypt and Ethiopia weren’t, and should not, really at warfare.
However, the two are locked in a bitter dispute over a large hydroelectric dam that Ethiopia formally opened earlier this month – and there are anxious that this rift might escalate.
Sitting on a tributary of the Nile, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, took some 15 years to constructed and the Ethiopians see it as a key to their future financial prosperity.
Egypt and Sudan have lengthy opposed the dam, arguing that it could negatively impression the availability of water downstream. Egypt has argued that below a colonial-era treaty signed with Britain, it has the rights to veto any initiatives on the Nile.
Serbia and Kosovo
Another puzzling merchandise on Trump’s checklist of conflicts he has solved.
Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, 9 years after NATO launched a bombing marketing campaign in opposition to Serbian forces liable for a brutal crackdown in opposition to ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Serbia and Kosovo signed an financial normalization settlement throughout Trump’s first time period in 2020, however Serbia continues to view Kosovo as a breakaway state and doesn’t acknowledge its independence.
Tensions between the two proceed to flare up each few months, with the European Union – which each nations want to be part of – taking part in a key function in mediation.