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President Donald Trump is continuing to brandish his image as a global dealmaker, this time with the claim that he has already ended six wars of the seven outlined by his administration as goals in his second term. The president made the comments Monday at a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and several European leaders, where he also pledged that the war in Ukraine would be on the list of those he’d brought to an end.

“I’ve done six wars — I’ve ended six wars,” Trump said. “Look, India-Pakistan, we’re talking about big places. You just take a look at some of these wars. You go to Africa and take a look at them.”

White House officials have been billing Trump as the “President of Peace” in recent weeks, with a statement issued earlier this month touting what it said were achievements in a number of regions: Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. Administration officials also have pointed to normalization deals between Israel and a number of Arab states brokered in Trump’s first term known as the Abraham Accords.

Trump’s peacekeeping boasts have raised questions over whether he is offering any real solutions to some of the world’s most intractable problems or is merely labeling temporary ceasefires as historic peace agreements. A truce between Israel and Iran, for example, brought a 12-day bout of fighting to an end. But tension between Tehran and Jerusalem remains over Iran’s nuclear program, with no new path to a resolution.

Past efforts to end hostilities by Trump also demonstrate the limits of his peacemaking. Initiatives to end the bloodshed between Israel and Hamas floundered. So, too, did Trump’s first-term summitry with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who left their face-to-face meetings with an expanded nuclear program.

Symbolic Breakthroughs

Trump, however, has been able to notch some symbolic breakthroughs on his watch. Earlier this month, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a declaration at the White House in which the countries pledged to recognize their borders and renounce violence against each other. The deal also created a U.S.-backed transportation corridor between the two states, labeled the “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity.” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hailed the agreement as “a miracle,” although analysts note that difficult territorial disputes remain to be worked out.

In Southeast Asia, Trump also used his economic leverage to force the warring parties to stop fighting. In clashes along their shared border, Cambodia and Thailand killed 38 people. Trump threatened to suspend U.S. trade deals with both governments until the hostilities ceased. Talks were eventually completed with help from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet still went on to nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary statesmanship” that had “given peace a new lease on life.”

In May, Trump stepped in once more to resolve a flare-up on the border of India and Pakistan. Washington’s role was welcomed in Islamabad but played down in New Delhi, which disputed the importance of Trump’s intervention. The ceasefire between the nuclear-armed neighbors has held since, but the long-running dispute over the Himalayan territory of Kashmir remains a powder keg that is all too easily inflamed.

U.S. Inroads in Africa

Trump also has claimed credit for progress in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where the two nations signed a deal to recognize their borders and disarm each other’s militias. Some questioned the viability of the deal immediately, however, when the M23 rebel group rejected it. U.S. strategic interests may be at play as well, with the agreement seen as helping to solidify Washington’s advantage in its competition with China for access to Africa’s mineral wealth.

His claims on Egypt and Ethiopia involve their bitter dispute over a massive hydroelectric dam on the Nile River. Trump has pressed both sides to compromise on the project, which has met fierce resistance in Cairo, but no binding agreement has been reached. Trump has also pointed to normalization steps between Serbia and Kosovo that date back to his first term in office. But the two countries remain locked in a diplomatic standoff with little in the way of tangible progress. In fact, the latest round of talks have been mainly driven by the European Union, not Washington.

Lack of Diplomatic Presence

Trump’s approach to foreign policy has been anything but traditional, relying less on the traditional ranks of career diplomats and more on bombastic talk and personal branding. His aggressive downsizing of the State Department and cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development has left America with less personnel on the ground to ensure any temporary deal translates into a durable and lasting peace.

At the same time, however, some observers say Trump’s interventions have at times been effective. “It was handled in a professional way, quietly, diplomatically, very much state department stuff, not something that was shouted from the rooftops, but they were finding common ground between the parties,” said Celeste Wallander, who served as assistant secretary of defense under Obama and is now at the Center for a New American Security, in reference to the president’s moves to ease tensions between India and Pakistan.

As Trump turns his attention to ending the war in Ukraine, the question now is whether the record he has already produced signals a genuine offer of lasting diplomacy or merely another temporary fix. In many ways, the track record so far is both: headline-grabbing agreements that fall well short of permanent peace and stability, alongside a few instances where American pressure has worked to prevent further violence from spinning out of control. It remains to be seen whether those outcomes have staying power.