Trump swores to make the world safer

When Donald Trump was sworn in as a US president for the second time in January, he promised. “My proud inheritance will be that of a peace and unifier,” he said at home at home and far beyond.

Then, a little more than a hundred days later, during his first foreign tour, which led him to three wealthy Arab states -he boasted that he did this vow well. “I will tell you that the world is currently a much safer place,” he said in relation to Ukraine. “I think we can have a much safer place in two or three weeks.”

But how much progress does the self -proclaimed “world -best peace stifter” really make? Does Trump transform the world into a safer or more dangerous place?

The answer has many corners.

It is difficult to ignore the reality on site in the two most famous conflicts in the world.

President Trump boasts that he is the only one who can make a contract with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – but Russia is now pounding Ukraine with the largest number of drones and rockets Since his full invasion in 2022.

And he repeatedly asked for an armistice in Gaza Strip, but this week the employees of the Red Cross of the field hospital say that they received the highest number of arms patients since they set up their clinic more than a year ago.

However, there are some light shimmer in the dark on other fronts.

Nuclear talks between the United States and Iran are urged by an American president who insisted to achieve good business and to avert a poor destructive war.

The next round of this talks imparted by Oman is expected to take place on Sunday, although there are intensive speculation that Israel may be preparing its own military strikes via Iran.

Syria has a greater chance of fighting dangerous inner tensions and deep poverty after President Trump suddenly announced last month that the punishment of the sanctions about the country on the urging of his Saudi ally would be canceled.

“It is the worst and the best times,” said David Harland, Executive Director of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue based in Geneva. “There are now more wars than ever in the world, but more conflicts are on the negotiating table and some are moving forward.”

In Trump’s claim, the truth is that only he can make some players speak to peace. He is the only world leader that Putin and Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu know, among other things, that they have to listen – or otherwise.

“Bet, they are afraid of him,” said KT McFarland, Trump’s former deputy national security advisor who will agree with a BBC World Service debate whether the president makes the world more secure or more dangerous that will be broadcast on Friday.

His motto “Peace through strength” is based on his conviction that his mere strength of personality, brave threats and direct phone calls can end wars. He even said he could end wars in one day – but it is clearly not.

However, Trump pushed the Russian and Ukrainian officials back to the negotiating table, but there was hardly any progress that went beyond some important prisoner exchange. President Putin shows no signs that he is willing to end this difficult war.

Trump’s threats of “Hell to pay ultimats to Hamas and the pressure on Israel helped in January to get a Gaza ceasefire over the line, even before he was sworn in to the office on January 20th. But the ceasefire described by Trump broke down in March.

“He doesn’t like to go into the detail,” said an Arab diplomat and underlined the President’s preference for quick, simple offers in deeply complex conflicts.

“We all want shops, but we know that business does not work or not if it is not peace business, in contrast to the end of the war,” said Martin Griffiths, a former Secretary General of the United Nations, who is now executive director of the Mediation Group International.

Trump, who is proud to be the world’s boss worldwide, has also scattered the skills of experienced career diplomats. “You may know the rivers, the mountains, the terrain, but you don’t know how to make a deal,” he said.

Instead, it is his preference to use the deals of his own world of ownership, especially his golf buddy and former real estate lawyer and investor Steve Witkoff, who juggles all the winded and tricky files about Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and more.

President Trump’s Make America Great Again Crusade goes beyond individual business. He led Roughshod through the world order based on rules, which created the basis for global stability and security after the Second World War.

His repeated threats to take control of the Panama Canal, to buy Greenland and to transform Canada into the 51st US state, have amazed the capitals all over the world.

His steep tariffs, which were raised both allies and opponents, have unleashed retribution taxes and fears of a weak global trade war and at the same time burdened the ancient international alliances.

However, he also has others, including the NATO military alliance, whose own boss reinforces the order of the Washington for the arrangement of the members to significantly increase their own military expenses.

The American President also took a ceasefire between India and Pakistan after days of cross -border strikes between the neighbors last month. The late intervention in the United States made a big difference, but many other players got involved.

His business -oriented “America First” approach has also led to other conflicts, including the terrible fields of killing in Sudan, not beeping loudly on his own radar.

But in many regions he will encourage him of war -saving sides and carry out their mineral prosperity and their investment potential as a negotiation. For example, the proposed security contract of the President in the War Congo has caused a choir of concern that it does not concern the causes of the conflict.

“If you could use a mineral agreement at the end of the war year, there are countries that have already been fixed,” said Ero President of the International Crisis Troop.

The cuts of his administration in UN aid agencies and his dismantling of the American Aid Agency USAid have also deepened the suffering of displaced and marginalized people in many regions and intensified the tensions.

And after only a few months of his second presidency, Trump’s frustration over adamant actors caused threats to fulfill threats to “take a pass” and to move away from conflicts such as Ukraine.

“Business takes forever,” said Martin Griffiths, the former UN Unterstate Secretary, to me. “You have to start and you have to stay.”

The BBC World Service Debatt – does Donald Trump make the world safer or more dangerous?

The BBC World Service Debate takes into account the rapidly changing international landscape during Trump’s presidency. The boss -International -correspondent LYSE DOUCET is accompanied by a group of guests to discuss whether the new international order will make the world a safer place.

You can watch the debate about the BBC News Channel 9:00 p.m. on Friday, June 13th And it is streamed on the BBC News website. On Saturday, June 14th it will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5Live and World Service Radio.