Roosevelt and Carter, former US presidents, led peace talks that led to peace between Russia and Japan and Israel and Egypt.
During a White House meeting with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President Donald Trump expanded on his oft-repeated boast about ending multiple wars and made an even bolder assertion: That no president had solved even one war before him.
Trump said on October 17 that people tell him, “‘Sir, if you solve one more, you’re going to be known as a peacekeeper.’ So to the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a president that solved one war, not one war. (George W) Bush started a war (in Iraq). A lot of them start wars, but they don’t solve the wars. They don’t settle them, and especially when they’re not, when they have nothing to do with us.”
The US president is ignoring at least two instances of presidents personally overseeing negotiations that ended other countries’ wars, plu
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