Washington : US President Donald Trump has claimed that he played a decisive role in preventing a major conflict between India and Pakistan, saying his intervention helped avert what could have been a nuclear war.
Speaking for more than 100 minutes during his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress, Trump stated that he had ended eight wars within the first ten months of his second term at the White House. Among them, he included tensions between India and Pakistan following clashes in May 2025.
Trump said Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif had told him that up to 35 million people could have died had the fighting escalated further. “In my first 10 months, I ended eight wars… including Pakistan and India, which would have been a nuclear war,” he remarked.
The US president also cited several other conflicts he claimed to have helped de-escalate, including disputes between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda, as well as the ongoing war in Gaza, which he said was now continuing at a significantly reduced intensity.
Highlighting his administration’s priorities, Trump asserted that efforts were underway to strengthen both domestic safety and international security. “We’re proudly restoring safety for Americans at home and restoring security for Americans abroad. Our country has never been stronger,” he said.
