US President Donald Trump on Tuesday (local time) reiterated his claim that he had helped stop eight global wars, including what he described as a potential “nuclear war” between India and Pakistan. He also made a fresh assertion that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif would have died had it not been for his intervention. 

In his annual State of the Union Address, Trump said Pakistan and India would have been in a nuclear war, adding that “35 million people of Pakistan said that the Prime Minister Sharif, would have died if it were not for my involvement”. He claimed his efforts prevented the situation from escalating further.

The conflicts Trump said he helped resolve include those involving Israel and Hamas, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, India and Pakistan, Serbia and Kosovo, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Armenia and Azerbaijan, as well as Cambodia and Thailand.