Sri Lanka, Feb. 11 -- US President Donald Trump has once again claimed that he had stopped a war between India and Pakistan last year, which he said could have escalated into a nuclear conflict, by using tariffs as leverage.

Speaking in an interview to Fox Business, Trump said he had settled "eight wars", adding that at least six of them were resolved through the use of tariffs.

"If you don't settle this war, I'm going to charge you tariffs, because I don't want to see people getting killed," he said, explaining his approach.

Referring to India and Pakistan, Trump claimed the situation had been extremely volatile. "It would have been a nuclear war, in my opinion. They were really going at it; 10 planes were shot down," he said.

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