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Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover the White House.

I'm Frank O'Donias.

I also cover the White House.

And I'm Greg Myrie.

I cover national security.

And today on the pod, we want to take a look back at foreign policy decisions during

the first year of the second Trump administration.

And Greg, before we get into the nitty-gritty of what has happened this year, President Trump is fond of saying that he has solved eight wars.

Let's start there. Has he?

Well, Tam, the president has had some diplomatic success, but it's a real stretch to claim he's ended eight wars.

Many of these were small-scale skirmishes or tensions along a border or just diplomatic disputes with no actual shooting.

And in several cases, negotiations had already been going on for some time before Trump came into office.

But there have been a few successes. For example, this long-running feud between India and Pakistan, which dates back generations, they started trading fire in the spring for a few days.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio jumped into the fray and quickly

brokered a ceasefire. This could have escalated and the U.S. intervention worked very well.

Absolutely a good thing. But they didn't resolve any of their fundamental differences.

They just agreed to stop fighting for now. And the same could be said of some of these other

wars that Trump has claimed to have ended.

You know, they're still fighting going on in the Congo, Congo and Rwanda. You got Congolese rebels who are still,

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