Do you think President Trump’s success in helping to effect a ceasefire between Israel and Iran was the only peace deal he made this week?
If so – incredibly – you are wrong.
From Kathryn Watson’s article for CBS News:
President Trump on Friday celebrated the signing of a U.S.-brokered peace agreement between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, marking what the Trump administration hopes will be the end of a deadly conflict that has spanned nearly three decades.
The agreement brokered by the Trump administration is an effort to stop the bloodshed in the eastern part of the DRC, where a militia allegedly backed by Rwanda occupies large pieces of land. Rwanda has denied directly backing the rebels. Officials from both countries signed the agreement in Washington this week.
The region has been unstable for decades, and conflict in eastern Congo has led to thousands of deaths recently, and about 6 million deaths over the last three decades, according to the Council on Foreign Relations. The conflict has spawned a humanitarian crisis and widespread displacement in eastern DRC.
The agreement allows for U.S. access to the DRC’s deposits of minerals, such as gold, copper and lithium.
Mr. Trump on Friday took credit not just for the DRC-Rwanda agreement, but for his administration’s role in intervening in other conflicts, too.
“This is a tremendous breakthrough,” he said. “In a few short months, we’ve now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, India and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a couple of others, also.”
Another peace deal. Another cessation of the terror and killing between two nations. And another major benefit for the United States, regarding access to the Congo’s rich store of mineral assets.
Wow. And double wow.
So tell me; do you think Kamala Harris would have accomplished this? (I’ll wait for you to stop laughing).
Like him or dislike him personally, what Donald Trump has accomplished in the five-plus months he has been back in the Oval Office is nothing short of astonishing.
