Trump claims he ended a struggle – between international locations which can be 4,000 miles aside | EUROtoday

If you have not heard of the Armenian-Cambodian battle, that is okay, as a result of neither has anybody else — aside from President Donald Trump, who claims to have ended the supposedly brewing conflict.

During the American Cornerstone Institute’s Founders’ Dinner on the Mount Vernon property in Virginia Saturday, Trump once more rattled off his peacemaking resume, the most recent push in his need to win a Nobel Peace Prize.

One of the wars he talked about ending was a battle between “Cambodia and Armenia.”

The president didn’t elaborate on what allegedly set leaders in capitals Phnom Penh and Yerevan — that are 4,150 miles aside — towards one another, however he assured the gang that struggle “was just starting, and it was a bad one.”

There has been no battle between Armenia and Cambodia. The 79-year-old president seems to have combined up Armenia’s tensions with Azerbaijan, and border violence between Cambodia and Thailand.

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To Trump’s credit score, his administration did assist easy over the latter battle. In July, clashes on the Cambodia–Thailand border left 43 folks useless and greater than 300,000 displaced over a five-day interval.

Trump and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim started making calls and mediated on the battle. The nations agreed to a ceasefire on July 28.

In August, Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet joined with Pakistan and Israel to appoint Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize. He credited the U.S. president with utilizing “visionary and innovative diplomacy” to assist defuse the border disaster.

It’s potential that Armenia was merely on the president’s thoughts when he made the slip-up in the course of the dinner speech. Just earlier than his gaffe, he had been discussing the very actual battle between Azerbaijan and Armenia over Nagorno-Karabakh, a area of Azerbaijan that’s populated by ethnic Armenians.

In August, the leaders of each nations met within the Oval Office and signed an settlement to finish the battle over the area.

Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan shook fingers in the course of the assembly. Trump known as the occasion “historic” on the time.

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His Saturday night time dinner stumble is not the primary time Trump has combined up which international locations he is allegedly helped out of battle.

During a joint press convention with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer final week, Trump once more bungled his brag, claiming that the U.S. “settled” a battle between Azerbaijan — which he struggled to pronounce — and Albania.

The similar week on Fox News, he made the error once more, and repeated it a 3rd time whereas discussing his diplomatic victories on a conservative radio present.

Trump — who just lately oversaw the renaming of the Defense Department to the Department of War — has made clear he needs a Nobel Peace Prize, and has been regularly citing his diplomatic successes.

In June, after he bombed nuclear services in Iran, Trump complained on Truth Social that “I won’t get a Nobel Peace Prize for this,” earlier than giving a listing of negotiations brokered by his administration.

In February, throughout an Oval Office assembly with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump complained that “they will never give me a Nobel Peace Prize.”

“It’s too bad. I deserve it, but they will never give it to me,” Trump mentioned.

In October, whereas he was on the marketing campaign path, he complained that former President Barack Obama acquired a Nobel Peace Prize in the course of the first yr of his presidency.

“If I were named Obama, I would have had the Nobel Prize given to me in 10 seconds,” he informed the Detroit Economic Club on the time.