The United States keeps a close watch on day-to-day developments between India and Pakistan as ceasefire agreements can crumble at any time, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has stated.
".....the only way to have a ceasefire is for both sides to consent to not fire at each other. And the Russians just haven't consented to that. Aside from that, I would say one of the things about ceasefires is they must be sustained, which is exceedingly difficult. I mean, every single day we monitor what's occurring between Pakistan and India, what's occurring between Cambodia and Thailand," Rubio continued.
Talking to NBC News' Meet The Press, he emphasized that temporary ceasefires are brittle. "Ceasefires can collapse very quickly, particularly following a three-and-a-half-year war (in Ukraine) like we're seeing now, but I don't think anybody disagrees that the best here, what we're shooting for is not some permanent ceasefire.". What we're trying to achieve here is a peace agreement so there's not a war now and there's not a war in the future," he said.
Rubio also referred to the role played by the former U.S. President Donald Trump in stopping further escalation between Pakistan and India. In a Fox Business interview, he said Trump's efforts highlighted Washington's overall drive for global stability.
And I believe we are very blessed and lucky and should be grateful to have a President who has put the making of peace and the achievement of peace at the top of his agenda. We've seen it in Thailand and Cambodia. We've seen it in India-Pakistan. We've seen it in Rwanda and the DRC. And we're going to continue to seek out any openings we can find to achieve peace in the world," Rubio said.
Since May 10, when Trump tweeted that India and Pakistan had decided on a "full and immediate" ceasefire following late-night talks brokered by Washington, he has repeatedly taken credit for mediating a reduction in tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Trump has repeated almost 40 times that he "helped settle" the conflict, while also implying that the U.S. offered "a lot of trade" to each side in exchange for stopping the fighting.
But India has resolutely spurned outside mediation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi informed Parliament that there was no foreign leader who asked India to suspend Operation Sindoor. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar also explained that there was no third-party intervention in ending the hostilities, refuting Trump's assertion that trade incentives played a role in India's decision.
Nevertheless, Trump remains to prioritize his role. In his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15, 2025, he again claimed that he ended the war between India and Pakistan, and made some comments regarding India's purchase of Russian oil.
"Look at India. Take a look at India and Pakistan. They were shooting down airplanes already, and that would have been maybe nuclear.". I would have declared it was going to go nuclear, and I managed to get it through. Number one is lives, and number two is everything else. Wars are horrible and if you can prevent them, and I appear to have a knack for ending them, of bringing people together, I use the power of the United States," Trump added.
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