Washington DC: US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that trade and tariffs played a decisive role in preventing conflicts, including the May escalation between India and Pakistan. Speaking to Senate Republicans at the White House’s newly renovated Rose Garden, he described how he leveraged trade deals to avert what he called a “potential nuclear disaster” in South Asia.

“I mentioned eight wars, nine coming. Of the eight, five were based solely on trade and tariffs. India-Pakistan were going at it. Two nuclear powers and serious nuclear. Seven planes were shot down. They were ready to go, and I called them up. I said, ‘You go to war and we are not doing a trade deal,’” Trump said.

He claimed that both countries questioned the role of trade in the standoff. “It has a lot. You

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