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US President Donald Trump once again repeated his assertion that tariffs were instrumental in averting a “nuclear war” between India and Pakistan during the May 2025 escalation, claiming he warned both countries they would lose US trade access if they didn’t de-escalate.

In an interview with CBS News’s 60 Minutes, Trump claimed that the two countries were on the brink of nuclear conflict, adding that his threat to halt business with Washington helped bring both nations to negotiate a deal, averting a potential war.

“It did work with India and it did work with Pakistan and it did work with 60 per cent of those countries. I can tell you if it wasn’t for tariffs and trade, I wouldn’t have been able to make the deals. But I stopped as an example. India does a lot of business wi

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