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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Monday (October 6, 2025) described his usage of tariffs arsenic a measurement to halt wars, and said that his communication to India and Pakistan during the caller conflict was "very effective", repeating his assertion of ending the conflict betwixt the nuclear-armed neighbours utilizing trade.
"Tariffs are precise important for the United States. We are a peacekeeper due to the fact that of tariffs. Not lone bash we marque hundreds of billions of dollars, but we're a peacekeeper due to the fact that of tariffs," Mr. Trump said successful the Oval Office connected Monday (October 6, 2025).
The U.S. president said that if helium did not usage the "power of tariffs", 4 wars would inactive beryllium raging.
"I usage tariffs to halt wars. If you look astatine India and Pakistan, they were acceptable to spell astatine it. Seven planes were changeable down. They were acceptable to spell astatine it. And they are atomic powers.
"And I don't privation to accidental precisely what I said, but what I said was precise effective. They stopped. And that was based connected tariffs. It was based connected trade,” helium said.
India has consistently denied immoderate third-party intervention. 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.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has made it wide successful Parliament that nary person of immoderate state asked India to halt Operation Sindoor.
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.
The U.S. president added that of the 7 wars helium ended, astatine slightest fractional of them were due to the fact that of his "ability astatine commercialized and due to the fact that of tariffs. If I didn't person tariffs to propulsion astir a small bit, you would person astatine slightest 4 wars raging close now, with thousands of radical a time being killed."
