India, Sept. 19 -- Heaping praise on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, political scientist and Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer on Friday said he could've "easily not embarrassed" US President Donald Trump on his India-Pak ceasefire claims, but chose to say no.

Bremmer was referring to Donald Trump's repeated assertions of brokering a truce between India and Pakistan days after Operation Sindoor, a claim New Delhi has denied.

"The Chinese have stood up to Trump. And effectively the Russians have stood up to Trump... And I think Modi is in that space... Modi could have easily not embarrassed Trump about the India-Pakistan issue. And instead, Modi decided to publicly say, 'No, you had nothing to do with this,' and really did embarrass Trum...