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U.S. President Donald Trump has again claimed that helium played a key relation successful defusing tensions betwixt India and Pakistan by threatening to enforce monolithic tariffs connected some countries, saying the determination "stopped the fighting" betwixt the 2 nuclear-armed neighbours.
In an interrogation with Fox News connected Wednesday (October 8, 2025), Mr. Trump said his "ability" to usage commercialized and tariffs arsenic diplomatic leverage helped bring “peace to the world” successful aggregate struggle zones.
Tariffs, helium said, "give you a tremendous roadworthy to bid and the redeeming of millions of lives, conscionable millions and millions of lives".
The President said helium made 7 bid deals wherever countries, successful galore cases, were warring for hundreds of years and "millions of radical were being killed".
"Not successful each cases, but astir apt successful astatine slightest 5 of the 7 (peace deals) we’ve done, it was done trade. We’re not going to woody with radical that fight,” helium said.
Mr. Trump said helium told the countries that "we are not going to fto you woody successful the United States. We'll enactment tariffs connected you".
To buttress his point, helium gave the illustration of the caller subject struggle betwixt India and Pakistan, which helium again claimed to person stopped.
Mr. Trump said helium had told some India and Pakistan that the U.S. would halt commercialized and enforce "massive tariffs" unless they “put it together” and halt the fighting.
“You look astatine India and Pakistan, I said, well, we're not going to bash concern with either of you if you don't enactment it together. These are 2 atomic nations. Seven planes were changeable down, arsenic you know, and they were truly astatine it,” Mr. Trump said. He, however, did not specify which country's jets helium was referring to.
“I said, we're not going to bash immoderate concern with you. We're not going to person thing to bash with you. We are going to enactment monolithic tariffs connected some of you... And wrong 24 hours, I had a bid deal... they stopped the fighting,” the President claimed.
Mr. Trump besides described his bid efforts successful the Middle East arsenic an “incredible thing", saying the Israel and Hamas' statement to his bid program to intermission warring is “so large for Israel, truthful large for Muslims, for the Arab countries, (and) for the United States”.
"This is much than Gaza. This is bid successful the Middle East, and it's an unthinkable thing," helium said.
India launched Operation Sindoor connected May 7, targeting panic infrastructure successful Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir successful retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam onslaught that killed 26 civilians.
India and Pakistan reached an knowing connected May 10 to extremity the struggle aft 4 days of aggravated cross-border drone and rocket strikes.
India has consistently maintained that the knowing connected cessation of hostilities with Pakistan was reached pursuing nonstop talks betwixt the Directors General of Military Operations (DGMOs) of the 2 militaries.
Mr. Trump has repeated respective times that helium ended 7 wars successful the 2nd word of his medication truthful far, including India and Pakistan, Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia and Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Since May 10, erstwhile Mr. Trump announced connected societal media that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate” ceasefire aft a “long night” of talks mediated by Washington, helium has repeated his assertion dozens of times that helium “helped settle” the struggle betwixt India and Pakistan.
