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President Donald Trump is claiming to be a dealmaker on the global stage by announcing he’s already ended six wars in his second term. The comments were made Monday during a White House meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a handful of European leaders, who Trump said will also help end the ongoing war in Ukraine.

“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.”

The White House has been touting the president’s record as the “President of Peace” in recent days, releasing a statement earlier this month that trumpeted claimed wins across numerous fronts. These included Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. Officials also touted the Abraham Accords signed during Trump’s first term, which saw Israel forge normal ties with several Arab states.

Is It Branding Ceasefires or Making History?

Critics have countered that Trump is marketing the end of ceasefires as historic peace deals or inflating past achievements. The situation in Israel and Iran, for example, saw a truce that ended a 12-day conflict but did not touch on the underlying sources of tension over Tehran’s nuclear program.

In other cases, his previous peace efforts show the limitations of his efforts. A plan to end the bloodshed between Israel and the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip collapsed. And his two summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during his first term did not result in concrete steps toward denuclearization, while Pyongyang’s nuclear capabilities have continued to expand.

Symbolic Successes

However, Trump has also been able to score some tangible if largely symbolic successes. The White House earlier this month hosted Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders as they signed a declaration committing to formally recognize each other’s borders and renounce violence. A U.S.-brokered transportation corridor was also part of the package, dubbed the “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity.” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev went so far as to call the agreement “a miracle,” while analysts say complicated territorial issues remain unsolved.

In Southeast Asia, Trump took to applying trade pressure on Cambodia and Thailand to stop cross-border clashes that killed 38 people. He threatened to suspend trade deals with both countries unless they halted the violence. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) played a key role in reaching the final settlement, but Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet still credited Trump and even nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize for “extraordinary statesmanship.”

Trump again played a role in May when he stepped into a border flare-up between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan. The Pakistanis welcomed Washington’s involvement, while the Indians denied the U.S. was a critical factor. The ceasefire between the two rivals remains fragile, with the underlying dispute over Kashmir unresolved and prone to breaking out again in open conflict.

Africa, Asia and Eurasia

Trump has also laid claim to brokering success in Africa, pointing to a deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo that called for the recognition of borders and disarmament of militias. The M23 rebel group opposed it, however, and many wonder if the pact can hold. Analysts also say U.S. strategic interests are in play with this agreement, which gives Washington an advantage in its competition with China over Africa’s mineral wealth.

Trump’s claims in the Egypt and Ethiopia situation center on their bitter standoff over a large Nile dam project. The president has been pushing both sides for a compromise solution but has not produced a binding agreement. There has also been some normalization measures between Serbia and Kosovo that date back to Trump’s first term. However, the two countries remain far apart and even recent talks have been driven largely by the European Union.

Reality Check

Trump’s non-traditional diplomatic methods that favor bombastic pronouncements and self-branding over quiet diplomacy have achieved mixed results. Skeptics say his downsizing of the State Department and cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development diminish America’s capacity to convert short-term arrangements into sustainable peace.

That said, there are cases where his interventions have clearly worked. Celeste Wallander, a former assistant secretary of defense in the Obama administration now with the Center for a New American Security, said Trump’s work on the India-Pakistan issue was “handled in a professional way, quietly, diplomatically … finding common ground between the parties.”

As Trump now looks toward Ukraine, it is an open question whether his track record to date points to longer-term diplomacy or temporary patches. The evidence so far is both: headline-grabbing deals that fall far short of lasting peace and cases where U.S. pressure has managed to stop conflict from escalating. The question is whether these results will hold up in the long term.