P resident Trump keeps claiming that he stopped the India-Pakistan fighting earlier this year. It is easy to dismiss him as a person who is prone to exaggeration and a vivid imagination, which can include terminological inexactitude, or in other words, Trump lies and repeats his lies. This writer believes that this approach does everyone a disservice. It fails to capture the nuances of high voltage diplomacy and it is concerned only about how things play out with domestic audiences. This writer therefore submits what seems to be an entirely plausible sequence of events which ends up with a win-win alternative that everyone can live with and which by some remote chance may in fact be the way conversations and events actually played out.

US Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Ma

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