Love him or loathe him, you can’t accuse President Donald Trump of being a stickler for the truth.
But perhaps the US leader’s most blatant fantasy has been to dub himself the “President of Peace”. His White House and State Department regularly issue communications trumpeting all the wars he claims to have ended. These include – among many others – Thailand and Cambodia (still raging), DRC and Rwanda (ongoing) andIsraeland Iran (Trump dragged his own country and the entire Gulf into that one and he appears to have negotiated the world’s first “ceasefire” where both parties are allowed to continue attacking each other).
That said, even a broken clock tells the right time twice a day. While it might not warrant the Nobel Peace Prize the decidedly war mongering president covets, one peace agreement he can claim at least some credit for is between the former Soviet bloc nations of Azerbaijan and Armenia. In that rare instance, a fragile peace actually seems to be holding.
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The two neighbouring countries in the South Caucasus had been locked in a frozen conflict since the collapse of the Soviet Union, all over a piece of land internationally recognised as Azerbaijan’s but illegally occupied, militarily, by ethnic Armenians.
Following a lightning offensive in 2023, in which Azerbaijan won back its territory, a tortuous peace process began. While not, as he claims, responsible for the actual peace process (that was already in motion) Trump has undeniably acted as a catalyst, hosting both sides at the White House to sign a peace agreement and setting in motion plans to build a transport corridor that would connect the isolated but energy-rich region to Europe and beyond.
With typical Trumpian modesty it is to be called the “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity”.
This is no small achievement. Azerbaijan and Armenia have been at each other’s throats for the better part of three decades, and a lasting peace between the two would be a boon for everyone.
Source: Daily Express :: World Feed
