Trump swore to make the world more fed up

When Donald Trump was sworn in as the US president for the second time in January, he made a promise. “My greatest heritage will be that of a peacemaker and unifier,” he told his audience at home and far beyond.

Then, just over a hundred days, during his first foreign tour – which took him to three wealthy Arab countries – he boasted that he was doing well with this vow. “I will tell you that the world is a much more fascinating place right now,” he said in connection with Ukraine. “I think in two or three weeks we can have a much more fascinating place.”

But how much progress does the self-made “best peacemaker” really make? Does Trump make the world a more fascinated or more dangerous place?

There are many angles of answer.

It is difficult to ignore the reality of the Earth in perhaps the two most famous conflicts in the world.

President Trump boasts that he is the only one who can achieve a deal with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin – but Russia now hits Ukraine with the largest number of drones and rockets From its full -scale invasion of 2022.

He has repeatedly called for the cessation of fire in Gaza, but this week, employees at the Field Red Cross Hospital say they receive the largest number of patients separated from weapons as they created their clinic more than a year ago.

However, in other fronts, there are some flashes of light in the dark.

Nuclear conversations between the US and Iran are underway, pushed by an US president, who insists that he wants to achieve a good deal and prevent a bad devastating war.

The next round of these conversations, mediated by Oman, is expected to take place on Sunday, although there is intense speculation that Israel can prepare its military strikes for Iran.

Syria has a more combat chance of dealing with dangerous internal tension as well as deep poverty after President Trump suddenly announced last month that sanctions against the country would be canceled at the insistence of his Saudi Arabian ally.

“This is the worst time and the best times,” David Harland, CEO of the Center for Humanitarian Dialogue based in Geneva, told me. “There are now more wars than ever in the world, but more conflicts are at the negotiating table, and some are moving forward.”

Trump’s claim is true that only he can make some players speak peace. He is the only world leader that Prime Minister of Putin and Israel Benjamin Netanyahu, among others, knows that they have to listen – or else.

“You bet they are afraid of him,” said KT McFarland, a former Trump national deputy advisor, who will join the BBC World Service debate about whether the president is making the world more conventional or more dangerous, which will be broadcast on Friday.

His motto “Peace through Power” is based on his faith that his pure power of personality, bold threats and direct telephone calls can end the wars. He even said he could end the wars in a day – but obviously not.

However, Trump pushed Russian and Ukrainian officials back to the negotiation table, but there is little progress beyond some important prisoners’ swaps. President Putin shows no signs that he is ready to end this heavy war.

Trump’s threats from Hell to pay Hamas’s ultimatums, as well as pressure on Israel, helped to conclude a deal to end the gas fire in the line in January, even before sworn to office on January 20. But the truce described by Trump as “epic” collapsed in March.

“He does not like to enter the detail,” an Arab diplomat told me, emphasizing the president’s preferences for quick easy deals in deeply complex conflicts.

“We all want deals, but we know that deals do not work or do not continue if they are not peaceful transactions, unlike transactions at the end of the war,” says Martin Griffiths, a former UN-general, who is now CEO of Mediation Group International.

Trump, who is proud of being the world in the world, has also rejected the skills of experienced career diplomats. “They may know the rivers, the mountains, the terrain, but they do not know how to make a deal,” he said.

Instead, his preference is to use the deals of his own property world, especially his golf friend and former lawyer and former real estate lawyer and investor Steve Vikof, who juggles all the painful and complex files in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran and others.

President Trump makes America a big hike again exceeds individual deals. He ruled rudely through the world order based on the rules that forged the basis for global stability and security after World War II.

His repeated threats to seize control of the Panama Canal, to buy Greenland and to turn Canada into the 51st state of the United States have stunned – and are scared – capitals all over the world.

Its steep tariffs, imposed on both the ally and the enemy, unleashed by igniting taxes and fears of the disabling world trade war, while tense centuries -old international unions.

But he has also galvanized others, including in the NATO Military Union – whose own chief is now amplifying Washington’s order for members to significantly strengthen their own military expenses.

The US president also took a loan to end the fire between India and Pakistan after days of cross -border strikes between neighbors last month. Belated US intervention made a big change, but many other players got involved.

His approach, oriented to the America First Business, also means that other conflicts, including the terrible murder fields in Sudan, are not very broadcast on his own radar.

But the warring countries in many regions are courting it, having their mineral wealth and investment potential as a negotiating chip. The transaction proposed by the President certainly for minerals in the war -torn war, for example, caused the chorus that he was not coping with the main causes of the conflict.

“If you could use a mineral deal to end the decades of war, then there are countries that would have already defined it,” said President of the International Crisis Group Comfort Ero.

Reducing his administration to UN assistance agencies and dismantling the US Aid Aid Agency also deepened the suffering of displaced and marginalized people in many regions and exacerbates tensions.

And after just a few months from his second Presidency, Trump’s impotence of the casual actors made him give threats to “take a pass” and move away from conflicts like Ukraine.

“The deals take it forever,” I told me Martin Griffiths, the former UN Secretary General. “You have to start and you have to stay.”

Does the BBC World Service Debate -Donald Trump makes the world more festive or more dangerous?

The BBC World Service Debate examines the rapidly changing international landscape during the Trump Presidency. Chief International Correspondent Lizo Dasht joins a group of guests to discuss whether the new international order will make the world a more fascinating place.

You can watch the debate in the BBC news channel of 21: 00bst on Friday, June 13, And he will be strengthened on the BBC News website. He will broadcast on Radio 5Live and World Service on BBC Radive and World Service on Saturday, June 14th.