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US President Donald Trump on Sunday (local time) has once again claimed that he averted a potential war between India and Pakistan by leveraging the threat of heavy tariffs while asserting that “seven planes were shot down” during the heightened tensions in May between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.

Speaking in an interview with Fox News, Trump said his administration used trade pressure to de-escalate the situation, which he described as being on the brink of a nuclear conflict.

“I’ve ended, you know, eight wars that we just mentioned. Five of them have been ended because of tariffs. The threat of tariffs, as an example, kept India and Pakistan–two nuclear nations–from going at it,” Trump said.

“They were going at it–seven planes were shot down. That’s a lot. And they

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