'Told Them We Will Put 250% tariffs..': Trump Revives Claim He Ended India-Pak Conflict with Tariffs
- US President Donald Trump claimed he helped stop fighting between India and Pakistan by threatening both countries with 250% tariffs.
- Trump said the two nuclear-armed countries stopped fighting after his warning at a Florida rally.
- India disputes Trump’s account and rejects outside mediation, saying Pakistan’s Director General of Military Operations requested the ceasefire.
- India said Operation Sindoor began on May 7 to target terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, and paused on May 10 after Pakistan’s request.
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US President Donald Trump said at a campaign event on Friday that he could impose 200 percent tariffs on Ukraine and Russia if a peace treaty is not signed between them.
They got very upset: Trump claims 250% tariff threat stopped India-Pak fighting
Addressing a campaign rally in Florida, Trump reiterated his claim that he had 'settled' eight 'wars.' He also used the occasion to once again express his frustration over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for his supposed diplomatic achievements.
'Told them we will put 250% tariffs..': Trump revives claim he ended India-Pak conflict with tariffs
US President Donald Trump has once again claimed credit for averting a military confrontation between nuclear-armed neighbours India and Pakistan, asserting that he brought the fighting to a halt by threatening both nations with a punitive 250 per cent trade tariff. Addressing a campaign rally, boasting of his diplomatic interventions on the international stage, Trump said that his direct ultimatum to the leadership of both countries swiftly bro…
US President Donald Trump has admitted that the threat of high tariffs would probably not be effective in stopping the war between Russia and Ukraine. He cited the small volume of trade between Washington and the two countries as the reason. “Maybe I should have done the same thing with Ukraine and Russia from the very beginning. I never thought of it that way. But we don’t buy enough from them to make it work, so it doesn’t work,” Trump said at…
Trump has threatened Ukraine and Russia with 200% tariffs if they do not sign a peace agreement Trump said he could impose 200% tariffs against Ukraine and Russia in the absence of a peace <p>agreement. At the same time, he doubted effectiveness of the event.</p>
Washington, however, does not have enough trade with Kiev and Moscow to "make them stop the war," recognized the US leader.
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