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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alex Croft and James C. Reynolds

President of Peace? How Donald Trump’s claims to have ended eight wars in his second term fall apart

Donald Trump tied up his first year back in the White House with a flurry of dramatic foreign policy moves; forcing regime change in Venezuela, threatening Iran with airstrikes and fracturing vital relationships with Nato allies over a plan to annex Greenland.

But despite the aggressive manoeuvring, the US president insists he is a peacemaker. Mr Trump began his second term last January with a promise to end Russia’s war on Ukraine within a day. That conflict is still very much in progress a year later despite repeated US-brokered peace talks.

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