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President Donald Trump is restating his claim that he is the greatest dealmaker in the world, as he boasts of having ended six wars in his second term. The president made the comments Monday while meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders at the White House. He also pledged that more progress on ending the war in Ukraine would be made in the coming weeks.

“Six wars, we’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.”

He has been boasting of his peacemaking achievements in other conflicts as well. The White House sent out a statement earlier this month under the heading “President Trump’s Record as the President of Peace.” It included several claimed achievements in multiple conflicts, including Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. White House officials also pointed to the Abraham Accords brokered during his first term, in which Israel and a group of Arab states normalized relations.

Ceasefires Claimed as Historic Deals

Questions have been raised about whether Trump is providing lasting solutions to the world’s conflicts or rebranding ceasefires as historic peace deals. In the example of Israel and Iran, the countries observed a truce to a 12-day-old conflict, but tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program remain.

His previous efforts in peacemaking also show the limits of his personal diplomacy. Trump’s efforts to stop violence between Israel and Hamas unraveled. His first-term summits with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un yielded no progress and Pyongyang has since expanded its nuclear arsenal.

Symbolic Successes

However, Trump has also been able to extract some symbolic breakthroughs from foreign leaders. Earlier this month, Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a declaration at the White House vowing to recognize one another’s borders and renounce violence. A U.S.-backed transportation corridor linking the countries was also included, and was designated the “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity.” Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev hailed the deal as “a miracle” in remarks at the White House, while analysts say the difficult territorial disputes are still far from settled.

Trump’s success in Southeast Asia also illustrates his ability to use the U.S. economic cudgel to halt violence. Fighting between Cambodia and Thailand, which killed 38 people, was stopped when Trump threatened to suspend trade deals with both governments. The final agreement was brokered by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), but Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet still credited Trump’s diplomacy and even nominated the U.S. president for the Nobel Peace Prize for his “extraordinary statesmanship.”

Trump also played the same role in May when he stepped into a border flare-up between India and Pakistan. Pakistan praised Washington’s role in the process, while India has denied that the U.S. was critical. The ceasefire also appears fragile, with the two countries still at odds over Kashmir and the risk of renewed conflict still present.

Trump also has taken credit for progress on a deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Trump administration officials have said that the countries agreed to recognize each other’s borders and disarm militias. The U.S. effort came on the heels of a push from the African Union, with Rwandan Defense Minister Vincent Baker Mutu saying the two nations had agreed to all its recommendations. The deal was rejected by a key rebel group, M23, and analysts question if it can last. But they also say that the U.S. has a strategic interest in the agreement: ensuring a stronger position in Africa’s competition with China for access to the continent’s mineral wealth.

The claims on Egypt and Ethiopia involved the countries’ long-running standoff over a massive Nile dam. Trump has sought to broker a compromise between the two, but so far no binding deal has been achieved. Finally, the administration points to various normalization measures between Serbia and Kosovo, some of which date back to Trump’s first term. The two have remained at odds over territory, with recent talks driven largely by the European Union.

Pushing for Deals

Critics have questioned whether Trump’s personal diplomacy is actually producing lasting benefits in foreign relations. Trump has often taken an unconventional approach to diplomacy, favoring his own brand and bold pronouncements over quiet shuttle diplomacy. His administration also downsized the State Department and cut the U.S. Agency for International Development, which have been cited as undercutting the U.S. government’s ability to move from short-term deals to lasting peace.

Some also see that Trump’s interventions in foreign conflicts have been able to produce effective results. Celeste Wallander, a former assistant secretary of defense who is now at the Center for a New American Security, said Trump’s intervention on India-Pakistan tensions was done “in a professional way, quietly, diplomatically … finding common ground between the parties.”

The question now is if that will hold for Ukraine. His record to date is both: headline-grabbing deals that fall well short of permanent peace and a few cases where Trump’s weight has been effective in stopping conflicts from spinning further out of control.