The president of the United States, Donald Trump, celebrated this Sunday the temporary ceasefire between Thailand and Cambodia, the result, he says, of his mediation efforts that have contributed to the cessation of several conflicts throughout the year and that, in general, open the possibility that his country has become a substitute for the United Nations in terms of peace initiatives.
On his Truth Social platform, Trump congratulated the leaders of Thailand and Cambodia for having provisionally put an end to three weeks of new cross-border hostilities that have left a hundred dead before assuring that “the United States, as always, was proud to help.”
From there, Trump once again insisted that his work as a mediator has managed to stop “eight wars during the last eleven months”, his usual statement when referring to his achievements as a peacemaker in foreign policy.
Trump boasts of having put an end to conflicts such as the one in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, that of Armenia and Azerbaijan or the one that broke out this year between India and Pakistan, although some continue to occur, in the case of the African country, or have ended through direct talks between the belligerents, as both New Delhi and Islamabad claim.
In the Middle East, Israel continues to attack Gaza almost daily despite the ceasefire in force while the Israeli Army denounces incursions against its positions in the Palestinian enclave.
Trump, in any case, ended up concluding with a reflection on the usefulness of the United Nations by arguing that “perhaps the United States has become the true UN, which has been of very little help in any of these cases, including the current disaster between Russia and Ukraine.”
“The UN must begin to actively participate in WORLD PEACE,” concluded the North American president, since his first term a profound critic of the international institution and its agencies.