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Trump makes his pitch again: “I’ve ended 6 wars”

The claim: He’s already ended six wars in his second term

Why it matters: Trump’s next turn in the presidency, if it happens, is expected to heavily involve his continued campaign to promote his global achievements.

The White House wants President Donald Trump to be known as the “President of Peace,” and he is doing his part to sell it to the public.

During a meeting on Monday at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other European leaders, Trump touted his diplomatic efforts and said he had already ended six wars during his second term. He also said he was on a path to finding a resolution to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

“I’ve done six wars — I’ve ended six wars,” Trump said during the meeting. “And they were wars in the Middle East and places in Asia, big, enormous areas, and Africa.”

Trump’s latest claim that he’s already ended six wars

The White House this month released a statement heralding Trump as the “President of Peace” in reference to agreements or diplomatic efforts involving Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. It also referred to the Abraham Accords he signed during his first term that normalized relations between Israel and several Arab nations.

For Trump, the optics are just as important as the diplomacy. His critics say the wins are overstated or short-lived, but his team is clearly building a record that will help with his decades-long pursuit of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Foreign policy analysts say the agreements don’t necessarily create permanent fixes. In some cases, the deals are more akin to fragile ceasefires. The most prominent example so far is the one between Israel and Iran.

Trump tweeted out a photo after a 12-day war between the two. Trump said the temporary truce created peace but the agreement is informal and the dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program has lingered.

Trump has also had failures along the way. His attempt to broker a deal between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas fell apart after renewed fighting in Gaza. And his public flirtation with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his first term did little to slow Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons buildup.

A look at Trump’s six “ended” wars

Armenia-Azerbaijan and the “Trump Route”

Peace was declared between Armenia and Azerbaijan after a border conflict earlier this month. Leaders of the two countries signed an agreement at the White House that requires the sides to respect borders and forgo violence. The deal also included a transportation corridor through which the two countries could connect that was described as the “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity.”

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev gushed that “President Trump, in six months, did a miracle” in reaching the agreement. Analysts were more skeptical and said disputes over constitutional and territorial issues remain to be addressed in order for this conflict to be considered over.

Cambodia-Thailand and India-Pakistan

Trump threatened to suspend trade agreements with Cambodia and Thailand to end a border clash between the two countries in Southeast Asia that left at least 38 dead. A blunt show of leverage, along with diplomacy from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), successfully brought an end to the fighting. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet nominated Trump for the Nobel Prize in recognition of what he called “extraordinary statesmanship.”

Trump has also gotten involved in calming down a flare-up on the border between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in May. That region has already seen three wars over the Muslim-majority Kashmir region. Pakistan was more open to crediting Washington with helping, though India denied there had been U.S. mediation. The agreement so far is tenuous and the territorial dispute has not been resolved.

Rwanda-Democratic Republic of the Congo

Trump also promoted a deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to recognize their borders and disarm militia groups. But the M23 rebel movement at the center of the conflict has spurned the deal. Observers have noted this was a nod to U.S. competition with China for access to the mineral wealth in Africa.

Trump was referring to a long-running dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over a massive dam project on the Nile. Trump has tried to use the occasion to push for compromise but there has been no signed agreement.

The White House pointed to Trump’s role earlier in his first term in coaxing the former Yugoslav Republic of Serbia and Kosovo to begin economic normalization. The two countries remain at odds on many diplomatic levels, and much of the recent progress has been with the European Union’s guidance.

Background: Trump has long been keen to show himself as a world leader capable of ending wars. He began promoting the Abraham Accords between Israel and four Arab states shortly after his first term, even flying to the White House to mark the news and take selfies with the leaders. Trump still has that first-term deal in his “portfolio” of claimed accomplishments, and he has continued to seek out foreign leaders to tout his influence.

It also shows Trump’s tendency to exaggerate outcomes. His critics note that shedding staff at the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development will make it more difficult to cement ceasefires as permanent peace.

The impact: Skeptics of Trump’s style say his hands-on approach may get results, but the optics and campaigning that comes along with it are also counterproductive. “The ones that were helpful, especially India-Pakistan, were conducted in a professional way, quietly, diplomatically. … laying the ground and finding common ground between the parties,” said Celeste Wallander, a former Pentagon official now with the Center for a New American Security.