Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed to have ended ‘six wars in six months’ ahead of a crunch meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky.

The US President insists he has already averted a nuclear apocalypse and now only has the ‘complex’ Russia-Ukraine war left in his sights as he makes a bold bid for a Nobel Peace prize.

The Metro takes a look to see if Trump’s claim that he is an international peacekeeper worthy of following in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela and long-term rival Barack Obama.

Trump’s claim

‘I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster, and yet I have to read & listen to the Wall Street Journal, and many other who truly don’t have a clue, tell me everything that I am doing wrong on the Russia/Ukraine MESS, that is Sleepy Joe Biden’s war, not mine. I’m only here to stop it, not to prosecute it any further’, Trump wrote in a bragadocious post on Truth Social.

‘It would have NEVER happened if I was President. I know exactly what I’m doing, and I don’t need the advice of people who have been working on all of these conflicts for years, and were never able to do a thing to stop them. They are “STUPID” people, with no common sense, intelligence, or understanding, and they only make the current Russia/Ukraine disaster more difficult to FIX. Despite all of my lightweight and very jealous critics, I’ll get it done — I always do!!!’

India and Pakistan

Donald Trump boasted he ended the standoff between India and Pakistan which has been running since the countries were divided along religious lines by the British in 1947.

India launched military strikes under Operation Sindoor on May 7, in response to the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which terrorists killed 26 people, mostly civilians.

Trump has claimed he was the one who stopped the conflict by offering trade deals between the two nations before it could escalate into a full-blown war.

Pakistan hailed Trump’s role and even backed the president’s calls for a Nobel Peace prize.

But India later revealed there was no call between Prime Minister Modi and Trump from the 22nd of April when Trump called up to convey his sympathy and the 17th of June, when he called up Prime Minister [Modi] in Canada to explain why he could not meet him.

While Trump has repeatedly claimed credit for the ceasefire India has maintained that the halt in military action on May 10 was a result of direct contact between both nations.

‘This contact was initiated by the Pakistani side,’ India has said.

Iran and Israel

In June, Trump intervened in the Iran-Israel conflict by ordering US strikes on three key Iranian nuclear facilities, bringing the Middle East to the brink of a new regional war.

He then announced there had been a ceasefire.

But the truce faltered when Israel accused Iran of launching missiles into its airspace after the ceasefire was supposed to take effect and vowed to retaliate.

Iran’s military denied firing on Israel, yet explosions boomed and sirens sounded across northern Israel and an official said two Iranian missiles were intercepted.

Trump’s frustration was palpable as he spoke to reporters, using an expletive to hammer home his point.

‘I’m not happy with them. I’m not happy with Iran, either, but I’m really unhappy with Israel going out this morning,’ Trump said.

‘We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the f—- they’re doing.’

On Monday, he told reporters that he had ended Iran’s nuclear capability.

Cambodia and Thailand

Under pressure from Trump, who threatened to delay crucial trade talks, the two Asian countries agreed to a ceasefire on July 28.

The recent fighting was triggered by a land mine explosion in disputed land along the border that wounded five Thai soldiers. That came just a week after a similar incident.

‘It means that we only want to live side-by-side with Thailand as a good neighbor, living with unity and peace with each other,’ Khem Sorn, the chief monk for Phnom Penh said.

It was the latest eruption of hostilities in a decades-old dispute over ownership of several small pockets of territory along the 800-kilometer (500-mile) land border.

A ceasefire that took effect on July 29 ended major fighting, though both sides have alleged violations of the truce and the underlying dispute over territorial claims has not been resolved.

Armenia and Azerbaijan

The leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan shook hands at a White House peace summit before signing an agreement aimed at ending decades of conflict.

The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan centres on the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan but has a majority Armenian population. 

This dispute has led to multiple wars and periods of intense conflict, most recently in 2020.

Trump was in the middle as Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan flanked him on either side at a meeting in the White House. As the two extended their arms in front of Trump to shake hands, the president reached up and clasped his hands around theirs.

Trump said Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev would also be signing agreements with the US to ‘pursue Economic opportunities together, so we can fully unlock the potential of the South Caucasus Region.’

‘Many Leaders have tried to end the War, with no success, until now, thanks to ‘TRUMP,’’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.

Foreign policy experts said Trump deserves some credit for recent peace agreements in several conflicts.

But Trump has struggled to made headway on the world’s two most vexing conflicts: the Russia-Ukraine war and Israel’s offensive against Hamas in Gaza.

Hamas and Israel

Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff said last month that the US was bringing home its negotiating team from Qatar to assess its next steps.

Witkoff said the move was made because Hamas was not showing ‘good faith’ toward reaching a ceasefire.

No major breakthroughs have occurred despite weeks of talks in Qatar, along with a visit to the White House by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Witkoff said the U.S. would ‘consider alternative options to bring the hostages home,’ but officials did not answer questions about what those options could include.

President Donald Trump appeared to endorse Israel’s plan to take control of Hamas’s last strongholds in the Gaza Strip on August 18, writing on Truth Social: ‘We will only see the return of the remaining hostages when Hamas is confronted and destroyed!!! The sooner this takes place, the better the chances of success will be.’

Ukraine and Russia

Volodymyr Zelensky and Trump expressed hope that Monday’s critical talks with Ukrainian and European leaders at the White House could lead to trilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to Russia’s war on Ukraine.

‘They want to give protection and they feel very strongly about it and we’ll help them out with that,’ Trump said. ‘I think its very important to get the deal done.’

Monday’s hastily assembled meeting comes after Trump met on Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin and has said that the onus is now on Zelensky to agree to concessions that he said could end the war.

‘If everything works out today, we’ll have a trilat,’ Trump said, referring to possible three-way talks among Zelenskyy, Putin and Trump. ‘We’re going to work with Russia, we’re going to work with Ukraine.’

He said: ‘All of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace.

‘And maybe something like that could happen as of this moment it’s not happening, but president Zelensky and president Putin can talk a little bit more about that.

‘You know, in the six or so wars that we stopped, we haven’t had a cease fire. You can do it through the war, but I like the ceasefire because you immediately stop the killing.

‘But I believe a peace agreement at the end of all of this is something that’s very attainable, and it can be done in the near future, with all of the wars that I got involved in, we only have this one left.

‘Of course, as soon as I walk out the door, there’ll probably be a new one starting, and I’ll get that stopped too. But I thought this was going to be one of the easier ones. It’s actually one of the most difficult. They’re very complex.’