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US President Donald Trump is once again touting his foreign policy record, asserting that he has already brought an end to six wars by the beginning of his second term in office. The audacious claim was made Monday at the White House at a meeting with the president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders, where Trump also intimated that he could soon bring an end to the ongoing war in Ukraine.

“I’ve done six wars — I’ve ended six wars,” he said, referring to interventions in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. “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,” Trump added.

The White House last week put out a statement referring to Trump as the “President of Peace,” detailing agreements or initiatives with and between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt and Ethiopia, and Serbia and Kosovo. It also noted the Abraham Accords, agreements which normalized relations between Israel and a number of Arab states in the region, signed during Trump’s first term.

Fragile Ceasefires and Hyperbole

Analysts have countered Trump’s self-congratulations by saying many of his supposed peace deals are in fact fragile ceasefires rather than permanent solutions. On Israel and Iran, for instance, the president claims to have brokered peace after a 12-day conflict between the two, but the undercurrent tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program remain, and decades of hostility show no sign of abating.

Elsewhere, his bid to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas ended without a deal and Trump’s first-term engagement with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un ultimately left Pyongyang with more nuclear weapons than it had before.

One of Trump’s most recent successes was a declaration signed between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House earlier this month. It commits the two sides to recognition of borders and a renunciation of violence, as well as opening a U.S.-controlled transportation corridor being touted as the “Trump Route for Peace and Prosperity.” The president was flanked by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, who hailed the agreement as “a miracle,” though experts warn that deeper constitutional and territorial issues remain unsettled.

In Southeast Asia, Trump used the threat of trade sanctions to broker an end to a border clash between Cambodia and Thailand that saw 38 people killed. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was also credited as playing a significant role, but Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet singled out Trump directly and nominated him for the Nobel Peace Prize.

The case in South Asia is more complicated. Trump has claimed credit for helping to ease a border flare-up between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan in May this year, but while Islamabad was effusive in its praise of Washington’s involvement, New Delhi was less so. The truce they reached left the disputed Kashmir issue untouched, casting doubts over how long it might last.

Trump has also pointed to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo as an example of his influence. The two countries reached a deal on disarming militias and easing border tensions, but the M23 rebel group at the heart of the violence in Congo’s North Kivu province said it did not accept the terms of the accord. Many observers also think the U.S. is partly motivated by an attempt to check Chinese competition for the region’s mineral wealth.

In the case of Egypt and Ethiopia, it relates to their long-running dispute over a dam on the Nile river. Trump has called for a compromise to be reached, but no binding agreement has been struck. A similar case is made over Serbia and Kosovo. Trump’s administration has noted earlier efforts between the two, which involved a number of measures to improve economic relations, but they remain without full diplomatic recognition and the EU has led most recent talks.

Critics point to Trump’s dismantling of elements of the State Department and his cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as evidence that the president lacks the infrastructure to turn temporary ceasefires into lasting peace. Others have noted that Trump’s unconventional style, involving crude threats and personal branding, can work, at least in the short term.

Advice for Trump

Celeste Wallander, a former assistant secretary of defense now at the Center for a New American Security, pointed to Trump’s quiet diplomacy between India and Pakistan as an example of the president having better results in less noticed areas than his more headline-grabbing claims. “The ones that were helpful … were conducted in a professional way, quietly, diplomatically … finding common ground between the parties,” Wallander said.

As Trump now seeks to take another swing at what he describes as a bid for peace in Ukraine, there are questions as to whether his approach will bring lasting solutions, or whether his record will be remembered more for audacious claims than tangible results.