As India marks Independence, Trump reiterates: six to seven planes downed in Pakistan battle
US President Donald Trump on Thursday, 14 August, as soon as once more invoked his function, contribution and expertise in resolving an India–Pakistan navy standoff, warning that the state of affairs on the time had reached the brink of nuclear battle.
Speaking to reporters Trump stated, “In the event you take a look at Pakistan and India, that was — planes had been being knocked out of the air, six or seven planes got here down,” Trump advised reporters. “They had been able to go, perhaps nuclear. We solved that.”
The president’s assertion on the White home got here simply earlier than Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation on India’s 79th Independence Day.
Trump described the episode as certainly one of a number of main worldwide conflicts his administration addressed, noting that he “solved six of them” in simply over six months, together with “one warfare raging… for 37 years” and one other within the Congo with Rwanda lasting 31 years.
Turning to the present warfare in Ukraine, Trump stated, “I assumed this may be perhaps a better one. It by no means made sense, this warfare. It might have by no means occurred once I was president. If I had been president this warfare would have by no means occurred.”
