Trump immediately claimed the credit for engineering at the end of the fighting, suggesting that he used the trade to bring the two parties to Talon. “We have stopped a nuclear conflict”, the American chief claimed. “I think it could have been a bad nuclear war, millions of people could have been killed, so I am very proud of it.” But while Pakistan was quick to give the White House the credit he wanted, India insisted that the agreement had been bilaterally concluded.
Finally, while the trade negotiations between India and the United States continued to stall agriculture and other problems, Trump and Modi spoke on the phone in June. I was told that during this call, the American president insisted on the fact that Modi publicly accredited him to have ended the fighting in May and that he invited the Indian Prime Minister to the White House when the chief of staff of the Pakistan Army Asim Munir would also be visiting.
Modi was not about to consider one of these requests. India has always insisted that its conflict with Pakistan is a purely bilateral problem, pointing to previous agreements between the two countries which reject external mediation. And as Prime Minister, Modi could never accept the idea of meeting the Pakistani military chief as if they were equal.
It was the last call between the two leaders. Washington’s position in trade negotiations hardened Trump’s supplications after Modi rejection, making a less likely agreement. And Trump insisted that a final agreement is concluded between him and Modi directly. However, the Indian chief knows what the American president really wants – his public consent to the idea that Trump prevented a nuclear confrontation.
This context helps to explain in part why Trump decided to celibate from India to be punished for its purchase of Russian oil shortly after.
At the beginning of August, as the American president indicated his growing dissatisfaction with Russia about his war in Ukraine, he said that India said “dead economyAnd announced an additional 25% rate on the country to import Russia oil. Many countries buy Russian oil and other energy products – including the United States, which buys uranium enriched for its nuclear reactors from Russia – but only India has been punished.
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