Donald Trump says India Pakistan struggle may have been nuclear, 10 planes had been shot down

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated the declare that he stopped the struggle between India and Pakistan final 12 months, which he mentioned may have turned nuclear, by way of tariffs.

“I settled eight wars. Of the eight wars, no less than six had been settled due to tariffs. In different phrases, I mentioned, ‘for those who do not settle this struggle, I’ll cost you tariffs, as a result of I do not need to see folks getting killed,” Mr. Trump mentioned in an interview to Fox Enterprise Tuesday (February 10, 2026).

“And so they mentioned, ‘Nicely, what does this need to do?’ I mentioned, ‘you are going to be charged’. Like India and Pakistan. It will have been a nuclear struggle, for my part. They had been actually going at it, 10 planes had been shot down. They had been going at it,” Mr. Trump mentioned.

He added that the Prime Minister of Pakistan mentioned, ‘President Trump saved no less than 10 million lives when he acquired us to cease preventing’. As a result of they had been going to go nuclear, [in] my opinion. With out tariffs, that would not occur,” Mr. Trump mentioned.

Mr. Trump has claimed credit score for stopping the India-Pakistan battle greater than 80 instances since Might 10 final 12 months, when he introduced on social media that the 2 neighbours had agreed to a “full and fast” ceasefire after talks mediated by Washington.

India has persistently denied any third-party intervention.

India launched Operation Sindoor on Might 7 final 12 months, concentrating on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir in retaliation for the April 22 Pahalgam assault that killed 26 civilians.