US President Donald Trump has once again claimed he stopped the war between India and Pakistan and that the two nuclear powers were "ready to go at it big". During a meeting in the White House on Friday with oil and gas executives to discuss plans for the Venezuelan oil reserves, he also reiterated his claim that eight jets were shot down. This is nearly the 70th time that Trump has reportedly repeated his claim of stopping the May conflict between India and Pakistan.
"I did put out eight wars, eight and a quarter, because, you know, Thailand and Cambodia started going at it again," Trump said in an interview with Fox News Thursday. He said that "in theory", one should get a Nobel prize for stopping each war.
"Because some of these wars were going on for 30 years. India, Pakistan were ready to go at it big. And these are two nuclear countries. I got that one stopped. Eight planes were shot down. They were really at it, and I got it stopped. It was a big one," Trump said.
Trump added that he also stopped the war between Congo and Rwanda, which had been fighting for 30 years.
"And I got it stopped. I got so many wars (stopped). So it's such a beautiful thing. It makes me feel so good, not because of a Nobel Prize, but because I saved millions and millions of lives, and that's what really makes me feel good."
He added that it's been a "major embarrassment" for Norway that he didn't get the Nobel Peace Prize.
"Now, I don't know what Norway has to do with it, but that's where the committee is located, a lot of Norwegian people, and it's been a very big embarrassment to the country of Norway, whether they have anything to do with it or not. I think they do," he said.
Trump added that when "you put out eight wars, in theory, you should get one for each war."
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India and Pakistan were locked in a brief but intense military confrontation in May, triggered by a terror attack in the Pahalgam valley of Jammu and Kashmir on April 22, which claimed 26 innocent lives. Following the terror attack, India responded with Operation Sindoor, targeting terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, and over 100 terrorists, including high-value targets like Yusuf Azhar, Abdul Malik Rauf, and Mudasir Ahmed, were successfully eliminated in the operation.
New Delhi has maintained that, inflicted by this heavy damage, Pakistan's Director General of Military Operations (DGMO) called the Indian DGMO, and both sides agreed to stop all firing and military action on land and in the air and sea with effect from May 10.
(With agency inputs)
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