# Trump solving eight wars - Has he done anything at all remotely close to this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [January 28, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119 "2026-01-28T13:43:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![velomont](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/8491ac/32.png) [@velomont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velomont)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/1 "2026-01-28T13:43:54Z")
Basically what the title asks. He keeps stating that he has solved eight wars and IMHO he has solved nothing. At the same time, MSM reporters never call him on it and he just keeps on saying it. So, realistically, has he actually done anything remotely related to this? Is it possible to actually list eight wars that clearly have been stopped by him or am I missing something? ---
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/2 "2026-01-28T13:47:00Z")
No. I can’t even think of ONE. I take that back…there’s maybe a different way of looking at this. Trump solved a war when he announced he would not be invading Greenland. So one could argue a war was averted by his actions. Because if you recall not a week earlier he was beating the ‘we need to invade Greenland’ drums. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/3 "2026-01-28T13:55:37Z")
I remember seeing a list somewhere at some time. IIRC, most of what were listed impressed me as border disagreements or internal struggles - in countries I had not even understood were “at war.” I think I heard on the radio yesterday that he claims the Gaza conflict as one of the 8. But of course, the claim is utter BS. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/4 "2026-01-28T17:54:28Z")
This article is comprehensive. > **[What eight wars did Trump end? His claims fact-checked](https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/what-8-eight-wars-did-trump-end-fact-checked-pxg9h6kxx?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqflMghZ6HS85Wnxy02aUqbfo2UzMz15RIkNv9JKnPe4HHv-sgrGDQgseXyg4RE%3D&gaa_ts=697a5008&gaa_sig=Q_Q47aFYX1UziVj54sg4Fc_Dl93FaEisWENOd7c9pYlJqw2_EbQhszqUF3u9bC1lq-leGENgE2fxoPDRPZkBHA%3D%3D)** > > He may have missed out on the Nobel peace prize but the US president claims to have solved multiple conflicts 1. Conflict in the south Caucasus 2. The India-Pakistan war 3. DR Congo and Rwanda conflict 4. Cambodia and Thailand tensions 5. Iran and Israel 6. Israel and Hamas (Gaza) 7. Kosovo and Serbia 8. Egypt and Ethiopia ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/5 "2026-01-28T18:06:18Z")
I’m not familiar with all those conflicts, but the ones that I am I would describe as “not actively shooting at each other last time I checked the news”, definitely not as having been “solved”. And how much credit can Trump legitimately claim for even these fragile ceasefires? I’m guessing not much to none. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/6 "2026-01-28T20:06:17Z")
Yeah, since at least Truman (if not Teddy R.) U.S. presidents have been in the business of sorting out diplomatic love triangles, where the U.S. is on better terms with each of the other countries than they are with one another. One example is South Korea and Japan, where some really brutal shared history makes each country highly sensitive to the other’s actions. Elites on both sides of that relationship know that they need to maintain good relations, but the public of each country thinks that the other nation is antipathetic to them, and a move against the other country’s interests or sensitivities can be politically advantageous. It’s pretty much par for the course for the U.S. president to smooth some feathers in such a situation on a frequent basis. In some other relationships, it can go to the point of two sides actually shooting at one another, often with no real intent to escalate conflict with the other side. When damage done is light, the U.S. can sometimes offer inducements to come to the table and hammer out another ceasefire, and as often as not just the fact of being on the president’s radar is enough for the leaders of some smaller nations to “feel heard” and take what they perceive to be a win back to their native constituency. When Donald Trump does the basics here, he has a crowd of sycophants (led, no doubt, by Marc O’Rubio) who will tell him he’s done the most incredible job of diplomacy of any president in history, and not only has he stopped an awful war from happening, he’s surely completely solved the underlying problem forever and ever. Is Donald Trump going to doubt any of this? So he thinks it’s all worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize. For presidents who are based in reality, it’s just a Tuesday, and a distraction from the kind of stuff they really want to do, and it’s just another round in a dance that started a while ago and will continue for a while longer, and hopefully they can keep it from becoming too much worse. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2026, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/7 "2026-01-28T20:08:47Z")
I answered the OP’s question last month in the Pit. I will just quote myself: > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/215): > > Here is a fact check by the AP. > > [FACT FOCUS: With a truce in Israel, Trump now says he's ended eight wars. His numbers are off](https://apnews.com/article/middle-east-eight-wars-trump-ended-fact-check-ff41789ca242462c1c0ab65eb4ae8c7e) > > I’ll summarize the 8 “wars he ended”: > > **Israel and Hamas:** There is a shaky ceasefire and a hostage deal worked out, but the war is far from over. > > **Israel and Iran:** There was a brief, 12 day “hot war”, which he helped negotiate an end to, but their cold war is continuing and can flare up at any time. Nothing approaching peace has occurred there. > > **Egypt and Ethiopia:** There was no war to begin with. This was a disagreement over a dam on the Blue Nile River. The US tried to negotiate to ease tensions, but those talks stalled, and there is just as much tension as there was before. Again, there was no war, and Trump didn’t even really achieve any changes in the non-war. > > **India and Pakistan:** No war actually broke out, but it got close to a war starting before a ceasefire was reached. Pakistan gave Trump credit for helping, India claims that the US never even talked to India so it didn’t have anything to do with it. Regardless of the truth, again there wasn’t even a war to begin with. > > **Serbia and Kosovo:** Not only was there no war, there wasn’t even any kind of recent conflict. Rather, NATO has been keeping the peace in the area, so there was nothing for Trump to even do. This is a complete fabrication from a bullshitter. > > **Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo:** The war is still ongoing, and fighting has continued. Trump did help negotiate a peace deal between Rwanda and the Congo, but rebels are still fighting and weren’t part of that deal, so the war wasn’t ended. Even if it was, Trump couldn’t claim _he_ did it himself. Qatar has had the largest role in trying to bring peace, but those efforts have stalled. > > **Armenia and Azerbaijan:** I’ll give him credit for _almost_ ending a war. It’s pretty close. Both parties agreed to a ceasefire, and a peace deal is in the works, but not done yet. When they do sign the treaty, I think it’s fair for him to take credit for this one, but not quite yet. > > **Cambodia and Thailand:** There was a conflict, but it doesn’t seem to have escalated to a true war, and all Trump did was again help negotiate a ceasefire. Now, he did achieve that pretty much on his own, by threatening tariffs on both countries (so his tariffs have actually been used in a productive way, that’s a miracle). But claiming to have ended a war here is a huge exaggeration. > > So to sum up, he claims to have ended 8 wars, when in reality he is pretty close to ending just one. Which, hey, that’s an accomplishment, but it’s very far from what he’s claiming. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/8 "2026-01-29T08:33:51Z")
Given it’s almost the anniversary of Ben Tre (February 7, 1968) and with ultimatums of imminent destruction being issued for distraction or whomever 45/47 considers to be grinding his valves, it’s a bit hard to tell, one does ponder whether the infamous headline from that day might be resurrected as a further example of his Nobel Peace Prize credentials. If it were needed: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2026, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-solving-eight-wars-has-he-done-anything-at-all-remotely-close-to-this/1027119/9 "2026-01-29T12:20:54Z")
> [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/215): > > **Israel and Iran:** There was a brief, 12 day “hot war”, which he helped negotiate an end to, but their cold war is continuing and can flare up at any time. Nothing approaching peace has occurred there. He was also heavily involved in that one _starting_, so… > [@The Trump Administration: The Clusterfuck Continues (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-trump-administration-the-clusterfuck-continues-part-2/1025298/215): > > **Cambodia and Thailand:** There was a conflict, but it doesn’t seem to have escalated to a true war, and all Trump did was again help negotiate a ceasefire. Now, he did achieve that pretty much on his own, by threatening tariffs on both countries (so his tariffs have actually been used in a productive way, that’s a miracle). But claiming to have ended a war here is a huge exaggeration. Yes, there’s a long-running border conflict not quite at “war” level but involving occasional skirmishes. Basically what happens is that when Trump remembers to look at them and threaten tariffs they pause for a few days until he’s distracted by the next shiny thing and then they start up again.