United States President Donald Trump on Sunday reiterated the claim that he stopped a potential war between India and Pakistan by leveraging the threat of tariffs. Speaking to Fox News, the Republican leader asserted that ‘seven planes were shot down at the time of escalating tensions in May between both nuclear-armed neighbours.

“I’ve ended, you know, eight wars that we just mentioned. Five of them have been ended because of tariffs. The threat of tariffs, as an example, kept India and Pakistan–two nuclear nations–from going at it,” Trump said during the interview.

The US President further added, “They were going at it-seven planes were shot down. That’s a lot. And they were going at it. That could have been a nuclear war.” Trump’s remarks refer to the heightened tensions this year foll

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