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By William Wolfe<\/span><\/span>, Op-ed contributor Monday, November 03, 2025<\/span>People walk underneath a billboard praising U.S President Donald Trump with the words “Cyrus The Great Is Alive!” on Oct. 12, 2025, in Tel Aviv, Israel. This week’s ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas has brought an end to the two years of war that followed the attacks of Oct. 7, 2023. A condition of the deal is the return of 48 hostages held in Gaza, 20 of whom are believed to be alive. <\/span> | Chris McGrath\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

When Donald Trump first ran for President in 2015 and 2016, all the usual people from the failed foreign policy uniparty establishment were up in arms. As NPR reported, \u201cRetired Army Colonel Peter Mansoor once said Donald Trump would be a \u2018foreign policy disaster for the United States.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Now, almost 10 years later \u2014 and nearly as many foreign conflicts resolved in just the first nine months of his second term \u2014 it\u2019s safe to say those critics are eating their words.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, on October 8, 2025, Trump announced what has been nearly unthinkable for the last few years: \u201cThat Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first Phase of our Peace Plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

He ended his post by quoting Matthew 5:9, \u201cBlessed are the peacemakers,\u201d (in all caps, of course, per his Trumpian style).<\/p>\n

Following this historic deal and the mutual\u00a0release of remaining hostages, the State Department posted an updated graphic highlighting that President Trump has ended no less than eight wars in a mere eight months.<\/p>\n

And these weren\u2019t just border skirmishes, either. Some of these conflicts were long-running disputes that had killed thousands and drained economies for years or decades.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s foreign policy runs on the principle of peace through strength. Build up the military, project power, then deal from there. It keeps American boots off foreign soil. No new wars started on his watch so far.<\/p>\n

Contrast that with the neoconservative Republicans and globalist Democrats who came before \u2014 the Bush and Obama crowd and their echoes. They preached democracy at gunpoint: Iraq in 2003, toppling Saddam Hussein on shaky intel, leading to 4,500 U.S. dead, $2 trillion spent, and ISIS rising from the ashes. Afghanistan dragged on for 20 years, resulting in another $2 trillion spent and 2,400 Americans killed, only to end shamefully with the Taliban\u2019s recapture of Kabul and control of the country. Or consider Libya. Under their influence in 2011, Gaddafi was ousted and chaos followed, marked, horrifically enough, by the presence of slave markets in the streets.<\/p>\n

Those interventions bred endless enemies and refugee waves crashing Europe\u2019s shores. Trump rejected that approach. He arms allies, squeezes foes economically, and brokers pacts that stick.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s team at the Departments of State, War, and Treasury and his national security advisors use targeted pressure \u2014 sanctions, intel, direct calls, and concrete incentives like trade access \u2014 to bring recalcitrant nations to the table and facilitate peace.<\/p>\n

No vague diplomacy or troop surges. The result? Zero U.S. combat deaths abroad this year. Dollars stay home, building walls and factories, not bases in deserts. Conservatives who still chase neoconservative ghosts miss the point \u2014 America First means peace that doesn\u2019t cost blood.<\/p>\n

Blessed are the peacemakers, indeed. Let\u2019s run through the list.<\/p>\n

Cambodia and Thailand:\u00a0<\/strong>When skirmishes erupted along the Cambodia-Thailand border last summer, few imagined the violence would stop in days. Yet, according to the Trump administration, that\u2019s precisely what happened. After a series of urgent calls to both prime ministers, Trump warned that the U.S. would suspend trade privileges if the fighting continued. Within 48 hours, a ceasefire was announced. Trump celebrated it as proof of his \u201cpeace through trade\u201d doctrine: no foreign aid, no troop deployments \u2014 just leverage. \u201cWe saved thousands of lives,\u201d he\u00a0declared. By using America\u2019s economic weight rather than its military muscle, he turned an old border feud into one of the fastest-resolved conflicts of the decade.<\/p>\n

Kosovo and Serbia: <\/strong>In the heart of the Balkans, where tension between Serbia and Kosovo has festered since the 1990s, the Trump administration took a different path. Reviving earlier economic agreements, Trump\u2019s team pushed both governments to focus on commerce, infrastructure, and energy integration rather than political grievances. The White House hailed the initiative as a peace achieved \u201cthrough prosperity.\u201d Trump himself said that he stopped a looming conflict \u201cbecause of trade.\u201d The result: calmer borders, renewed investment, and a signal that U.S. engagement could turn Europe\u2019s old flashpoints into zones of opportunity.<\/p>\n

The DRC and Rwanda:\u00a0<\/strong>Few conflicts have been as devastating as the decades-long struggle between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, driven by rebel militias and mineral wealth. In June 2025, both governments signed a\u00a0Washington-brokered accord\u00a0committing to disarmament, troop withdrawal, and a shared economic corridor. Trump\u00a0called\u00a0it \u201cone of the worst wars anyone\u2019s ever seen \u2014 and now it\u2019s over.\u201d U.S. mediators linked security pledges to trade incentives, promising investment in regional mining and infrastructure. For the administration, it was the embodiment of Trump\u2019s belief that prosperity can extinguish violence.<\/p>\n

Pakistan and India:\u00a0<\/strong>When fighting flared between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan in May 2025, global alarm bells rang. Trump stepped in personally, phoning both leaders and warning that U.S. trade relationships would end if the conflict continued. Soon after, the two countries reaffirmed a ceasefire. \u201cWe stopped a nuclear conflict,\u201d Trump\u00a0said. \u201cMillions of people could have been killed.\u201d The episode became a centerpiece of his foreign-policy narrative: American economic influence, properly wielded, can halt wars even where nuclear deterrence cannot.<\/p>\n

Israel and Iran:\u00a0<\/strong>After 12 tense days of strikes and counterstrikes between Israel and Iran, President Trump authorized limited U.S. action to neutralize Iranian nuclear facilities, then immediately moved to broker a ceasefire through regional allies. \u201cBoth Israel and Iran wanted to stop the war, equally,\u201d he\u00a0said. \u201cIt was my great honor to destroy all nuclear facilities \u2014 and then stop the war.\u201d The White House called it a triumph of \u201cpeace through strength,\u201d the doctrine that guided Trump\u2019s approach: act decisively, then negotiate from a position of power.<\/p>\n

Egypt and Ethiopia:\u00a0<\/strong>The dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam threatened to pit two of Africa\u2019s great powers \u2014 Egypt and Ethiopia \u2014 against each other in war. Trump\u2019s team leaned on quiet diplomacy, using aid, investment, and trade access as incentives for restraint. As tensions cooled, the administration credited its mediation for keeping the peace. In Trump\u2019s telling, this was another victory for America\u2019s \u201ctough love diplomacy,\u201d where the carrot of economic cooperation replaces the stick of military escalation.<\/p>\n

Armenia and Azerbaijan:\u00a0<\/strong>For more than three decades, Armenia and Azerbaijan fought bitterly over Nagorno-Karabakh. In August 2025, under U.S. mediation, the two nations signed a joint declaration at the White House \u2014 the first comprehensive peace agreement between them since the Soviet collapse. \u201cMany tried to find a resolution\u2026 and they were unsuccessful. With this Accord, we\u2019ve finally succeeded in making peace,\u201d Trump announced. The deal opened trade routes, restored diplomatic relations, and tied both economies to American investment. The administration called it \u201cthe end of a 35-year war\u201d and one of Trump\u2019s proudest achievements.<\/p>\n

Israel and Hamas:\u00a0<\/strong>The final entry in Trump\u2019s peace ledger came with the October 2025 truce between Israel and Hamas. After months of rocket fire and hostilities, U.S. mediation produced a cease-fire and a large hostage-prisoner exchange. Standing before the Israeli Knesset, Trump\u00a0proclaimed, \u201cThe skies are calm, the guns are silent, and the sun rises on a holy land that is finally at peace.\u201d For his supporters, it was a fitting conclusion \u2014 the eighth \u201cwar ended\u201d in eight months, sealing the image of Trump as a president who turned global chaos into calm.<\/p>\n

Peace through power<\/strong><\/p>\n

Eight months. Eight wars. One president. In less than a year, Donald J. Trump achieved what generations of American leaders before him could not. The last one to resolve is the Russian-Ukraine war. If Trump can bring an end to that, he will go down as the most transformative foreign policy president in modern American history.<\/p>\n

Whether through tariffs or trade, airstrikes or arm-twisting, Trump governed by a simple credo \u2014 peace is made by the strong. His critics may question the permanence of these accords, but even they cannot deny the symbolism; for one extraordinary year, the world seemed quieter, and the man in the Oval Office claimed to have delivered what no one else could: peace.<\/p>\n

And may God bless him, and America, for it.<\/p>\n

Originally published at the Standing for Freedom Center.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

William Wolfe is a visiting fellow with the Center for Renewing America. He served as a senior official in the Trump administration, both as a deputy assistant secretary of defense at the Pentagon and a director of legislative affairs at the State Department. Prior to his service in the administration, Wolfe worked for Heritage Action for America, and as a congressional staffer for three different members of Congress, including the former Rep. Dave Brat. He has a B.A. in history from Covenant College, and is finishing his Masters of Divinity at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Follow William on Twitter at @William_E_Wolfe<\/p>\n