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Donald trump and Mark Carney (left), PM Modi (agencies)
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney lavished praise connected US President Donald Trump arsenic helium met him successful the Oval Office connected Tuesday, calling him “transformative” and citing gains successful economy, NATO defence commitments, and determination stability.
“Thank you precise much, Mr President. If I may, you kindly hosted maine and immoderate of my colleagues a fewer months ago, and I said astatine the time, you are a transformative president. And since then, the translation successful the economy, unprecedented commitments of Nato partners to defence spending,” helium said.
In his remarks, Carney went further suggesting that Trump had played a relation successful “peace” betwixt India and Pakistan, perchance referring to Trump's assertion of easing tensions betwixt the 2 neighbours earlier this year.“Peace from India, Pakistan, done to Azerbaijan, Armenia, disabling Iran arsenic a unit of terror,” Carney said, crediting Trump with contributing to this shift.However, New Delhi has consistently rejected the conception that the United States intervened successful Operation Sindoor oregon the resulting ceasefire with Pakistan.Since the ceasefire was announced pursuing Operation Sindoor successful May 2025, Trump has repeatedly asserted that helium was instrumental successful halting the India‑Pakistan struggle - often attributing this to his usage of commercialized and tariffs arsenic leverage.
During a caller enactment with reporters, Trump said, “If I didn’t person the powerfulness of tariffs, you would person astatine slightest 4 of the 7 wars raging. … If you look astatine India and Pakistan, They were acceptable to spell astatine it. … What I said was precise effective. They stopped. And that was based connected tariffs.”
He added, “Tariffs are precise important for the United States. We are a peacekeeper due to the fact that of tariffs. Not lone bash we marque hundreds of billions of dollars, but we’re a peacekeeper due to the fact that of tariffs.”These claims are not new. Trump antecedently asserted, astatine a backstage meal with Republican lawmakers, that helium “stopped a batch of wars … these were serious, India and Pakistan … hitting each different … planes were being changeable retired of the aerial … 5 … but I deliberation 5 jets were changeable down.”Yet, India maintains the determination to intermission hostilities was reached via nonstop talks betwixt the 2 sides’ subject leadership, without third-party mediation.Prime Minister Narendra Modi has categorically stated successful Parliament that nary state asked India to halt its counter‑terror operation. The ministry of outer affairs has affirmed that commercialized oregon tariff negotiations with the US had thing to bash with Operation Sindoor. The struggle was triggered aft a dastardly panic onslaught connected April 22 successful Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam, which claimed 26 lives, mostly tourists. Backed by groups believed to beryllium from crossed the border.
In response, connected May 7, India launched Operation Sindoor, striking aggregate violent camps successful Pakistan‑occupied Kashmir (PoK) and Pakistan. After respective days of subject exchanges, a ceasefire was announced connected May 10, aft a ceasefire was agreed upon by nonstop dialog betwixt the directors wide of subject operations (DGMOs) of some countries, connected petition of Pakistani DGMO.
