An Already-Broken India-Pakistan Ceasefire & the Limits of U.S. Mediation - William Spaniel

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India and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire, but claims of violations followed only a few hours later. Today's video explores an inherent issue that will arise with this ceasefire, or any other ceasefire that may arise later. In prior decades, the United States played a significant role in mediating disputes between the two parties. However, today, Washington faces a bottleneck problem. There are many competing priorities, and the United States government only has so much time to allocate to all of them. The subcontinent ranks low on the list, and thus the mediation options available will be significantly limited going forward.

0:00 The India/Pakistan "Ceasefire"
0:52 What Actually Is the Ceasefire?
2:16 The Gates Mission: A Mediation Success Story
5:05 The Tangled Web of a World at War
11:16 The Bottleneck Problem

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1. India pushes back on Trump claiming credit for India-Pakistan ceasefire

The president boasted about the strategy he claimed to use with India and Pakistan. India effectively said he had no idea what he was talking about.
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India pushes back on Trump claiming credit for India-Pakistan ceasefire

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For example, Leavitt claimed the president “reached a trade deal” with United Kingdom, which wasn’t entirely true. She said the president “negotiated a trade deal” with China, which also wasn’t true. She said the president signed a “historic” executive order “to slash drug prices,” which wasn’t even close to being true.

But Leavitt also credited Trump with “securing a ceasefire” between India and Pakistan, and this too warranted some fact-checking......

Nevertheless, while in Saudi Arabia, Trump was eager to boast about how effective his strategy was with India and Pakistan. “I said, ‘Come on, we’re going to do a lot of trade with you guys. Let’s stop it. Let’s stop it. If you stop it, we’ll do a trade. If you don’t stop it, we’re not going to do any trade,’” the Republican claimed. “And all of a sudden, they said, ‘I think we’re going to stop.’”

According to India, Trump didn’t know what he was talking about. NBC News reported:

The Indian government on Tuesday disputed President Donald Trump’s claim that the U.S.-mediated ceasefire between India and Pakistan came about in part because he had offered possible trade concessions. Addressing a weekly news conference, Randhir Jaiswal, the spokesman for India’s foreign ministry, said top leaders in New Delhi and Washington were in touch last week following the Indian military’s intense standoff with Pakistan, but that there was no conversation on trade.

“The issue of trade didn’t come up in any of these discussions,” Jaiswal said, referring to the conversations with Trump administration officials.

It serves as a timely reminder: Trump sometimes takes credit for accomplishments that don’t exist, and he sometimes takes credit for accomplishments for which he’s not actually responsible.