Trump pulled out a piece of paper from his inside jacket pocket that bore a photo of him raising his fist with a list of eight wars he had helped end, and read it out.
“But I brought a small list… Look – here are the wars. How many of them did I stop: Cambodia – here is Cambodia, Thailand, Kosovo, Serbia, Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India – this should have been a serious story, they shot down seven planes. Israel and Iran – you heard about it. Ethiopia built a large dam, because of which water does not flow into the Nile. Armenia and Azerbaijan. And if you look – Israel and Hamas, this, you know, is also complicated situation, but everything will be fine,” the American leader said.
According to Trump, he did pretty well.
“You know how I did it? I said – in many cases, about 60% – I said, 'If you don't stop fighting, I'm going to impose tariffs on both of your countries and you won't be able to do business with the United States,'” he said.
He emphasized that the ninth war, which he wants to stop, is the war of the aggressor country Russia against Ukraine. In his opinion, he will resolve it in a few months.
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At first, Trump claimed to have ended six (or seven) wars. But after he announced the end of the war in the Gaza Strip on October 12, there were one more of them in the speeches of the American leader.
The head of the White House has repeatedly confused the countries where, according to him, he stopped the wars. On August 20, Trump said that he had already stopped a number of wars in the world, including the conflict between “Azerbaijan and Albania,” referring to the war between Azerbaijan and Armenia. “If you saw Azerbaijan, it was a big problem that lasted 34-35 years with Albania. Think about it. Lasted for years. And I met their leaders, I dealt with them a little bit on trade. I said, 'Why are you guys fighting?'” he said.
On September 20, Trump announced that he stopped Armenia’s war with Cambodia, confusing the latter with Azerbaijan.
