Did Trump Really End Six Wars?

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Well, here is what is on the tap for today: US President Donald Trump Claims of the peace dealand Israeli Preparations for The new Gaza attackAnd Trump chooses a battle Venezuela.

Peace deals carry the Trump brand

“I have ended six wars,” said Trump, Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinski and many of the White House reporters on Monday. This has become “I have solved seven wars” by the time when he requested Fox & Friends To conduct an interview the next day. The White House did not respond to a clarification request that Trump opposed.

But at least some of these deals-Trump’s role in them-were not clear like the American president causing them to come out as it is ashamed of the Nobel Peace Prize. Contrary to Trump’s claim that he “did not stop stopping” during his second term until now, the president’s sites have mentioned many peace deals that he claims to negotiate explicitly to the ceasefire.

India and Pakistan

Trump’s allegations began to end the armed conflict this year between India and Pakistan on May 10, when it was published on the social truth that both countries agreed to “a full and immediate ceasefire” after “a long night of talks in which the United States mediates.” Trump continued to end this conflict.

Pakistan enthusiastically participated in signing this statement, until Trump nominated the Nobel Peace Prize for what it described as “the decisive diplomat and the central leadership” during the conflict.

But India has been constantly reduced by Trump’s role and assaulted her in securing the ceasefire, saying repeatedly that the end of the conflict was negotiated directly with Pakistani officials.

Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo

The conflict between the two countries in Central Africa was the second that Trump mentioned in his meeting with Zelinski.

The Trump administration has already played a role in securing stopping in hostilities between Rwanda and Congo, as well as in Sarah in a preliminary peace agreement signed in the White House in late June, followed by the ceasefire agreement in Qatar in July.

However, the ceasefire was not held, and peace talks aimed at securing a permanent agreement during this week after the RWandan rebel M23 group moved away from negotiations.

Cambodia and Thailand

The border skirmishes between the two countries in Southeast Asia, the latest flash point in its struggle over the years, killed more than 40 people and explained more than 300,000 others last month. The ceasefire, which began on July 28, was still weak, was first in the first place by Malaysia and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, although the United States and China were involved in talks to it.

Trump published the social truth two days before the ceasefire that the United States “is dealing with trade with both countries”, but it will not do so unless they stop fighting. Then he was credited with the ceasefire when it was agreed upon, as he wrote: “I am pleased to announce that after President Donald J. Trump was involved, both countries have reached the ceasefire and peace.”

Armenia and Azerbaijan

In the latest and perhaps Trump’s mediation allegations, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nicole Pashinian signed a deal in Washington earlier this month to settle their long -term dispute over the so -called Zanzor Corridor who claims both countries. This pass “Trump Road for Peace and International Fluation” will now be renamed, as Washington has also obtained the rights of renting an American company to develop it.

Israel Iran

Trump announced that Israel will stop Iran in late June after a 12 -day conflict that also witnessed Iranian -Iranian Iranian facilities. Although the ceasefire looked fragile at the beginning, it was eventually held. But the reasons behind the conflict were not resolved.

There are open questions about the extent of damage to the Iranian nuclear program, although Trump’s allegations that he had been blocked. It remains to see whether the negotiations, which were in the midst of the United States when Israel launched its work against Iran, will never resume it.

“Other peace deals”

Trump won the credit for making “peace” between Egypt and Ethiopia. The two countries were not in war, but there is a struggle between them on a hydroelectric dam. In June, the president claimed that he helped resolve the conflict and that “there is peace, at least at the present time.” Trump was involved in the diplomatic dispute during his first term, but he was not settled.

The White House also referred to Serbia and Kosovo as another example of Trump’s conflict. But these countries were not in a direct conflict since the late 1990s. Trump helped to mediate the economic normalization agreement between the two countries in his first term, but their long -term tensions are far from resolving it.

Let’s get individuals

The expansion of the US intelligence community in the Trump administration on Wednesday, with the Director of National Intelligence Tolsi Gabbard Declared that she will launch nearly half of her office. This is in addition to 500 employees that Gabbard said she had shot since she took the head of the office, which represents nearly 30 percent of employees.

It is part of a plan that Gabbard called “ODNI 2.0”, which it said aimed at simplifying the agency to support Trump’s priorities. “Over the past twenty years, Odni has become amplified, radically expanded in size, and distracted from the tasks and requirements that fall outside its mandate,” Gabbard said in the advertisement. “Odni and IC [intelligence community] She suffers from unauthorized intelligence leakage, politicization, and weapons of intelligence. “

This announcement came a day after Gabbard canceled security permits for 37 current and former officials, including many participants in the investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 US presidential elections.

On the button

What should be on your radar, if not really.

Gaza attack new. On Thursday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated that he would give final approval to a controversial military operation to take over Gaza City, which was among the few areas in the pocket and not under Israeli control. The move comes despite international screaming and opposition within Israel.

Israel had strikes in Gaza City overnight as part of the initial stages of the attack. This process is particularly related to the broader world amid the escalating humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and Israel participates in talks with South Sudan to transfer Ghazan there.

Netanyahu also said on Thursday that he issued instructions to immediate negotiations to start launching the remaining hostages in Gaza and ending the war on acceptable conditions for Israel – a confusing declaration as Israel escalated the conflict with the Gaza City Operation. This comes after Hamas agreed earlier this week a proposal for a ceasefire from the Arab mediators, which was reported that he had conditions similar to a deal that Israel has previously adopted.

Meanwhile, there are also global concerns about giving Israel final approval for a settlement project that divides the occupied West Bank into half. The plan is a major obstacle to the long goal of the international community of a two -state solution. The Netanyahu government strongly opposes the Palestinian state.

Zelensky extraction. The dust continues to settle in Trump’s wave of diplomacy with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Voludmir Zelinsky, and the seven European leaders who visited Washington last week, but Zelinski made a positive note after returning home. Speaking to Kiev’s journalists on Wednesday, the great apparatus of the Ukrainian President was the American commitment to participate in any security guarantees after the war.

“I am very grateful to President Trump for this,” he said.

However, there is a long way to reach this point, and Russia has shown its present willingness to play spoils by insisting that it should also be part of these security guarantees-before the launch of the largest air strikes in Ukraine in two weeks. According to Putin, Putin reiterated his demands that Ukraine waived the entire Donbas region to Russia (more from that from John here), adhering to any Western forces on its soil, and stopping the attempt to join NATO.

Zelinski also said he was committed to a bilateral meeting with Putin, but he excluded Moscow or the Hungarian capital, Budapest, as possible places, instead he suggested countries in “neutral Europe”, such as Austria, Switzerland or Türkiye.

Ships off Venezuela. The Trump administration presents forward with its plans to send three American marine destroyers to the water off the coast of Venezuela, according to multiple reports. It is part of Trump’s broader plan for the presence of American combat military drug gangs. According to what was reported, ships will accompany 4000 American soldiers.

The Trump administration also doubled its reward earlier this month for the seizure of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro – who has refused to recognize the country’s legitimate leader since 2019 – to $ 50 million. Maduro replied that he had fill out 4.5 million militias via Venezuela to thwart any possible threat in the United States.

Shot

Wear your radar

Monday, August 25Trump hosts South Korean President Lee Jay Meong in Washington, DC

Wednesday, August 27: 25 percent of the American customs tariff for India to purchase Russian oil into effect.

In numbers

58: Percent of Americans who say that all countries of the United Nations should recognize Palestine as a country, according to a new poll of Reuters/Ipsos, which included the survey of 4,446 adults between August 13 and August 18. This number was much higher among Democrats, by 78 percent, with only 41 percent of Republicans who are leading to recognize the Palestinian state.

Quote from the week

“I want to try to reach heaven if possible. I hear that I am not fine. I hear that I am really at the bottom of the totem column.” – Trump, in it Fox & Friends An interview on Tuesday, explaining why he is trying to end the war in Ukraine.

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