Forbes: Biden is the first US president to meet with the President of Russia in his first foreign trip

Ken Roberts, analyst at Forbes magazine, said that the choice of the venue for the meeting between US President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, raises astonishment and surprise.

The journalist stated, that when looking at the history of foreign trips of US presidents, we will notice that they never chose their opponent’s region as the place for the first meeting, but two of them violated this rule and made it an exception.

For example, Harry Truman made his first foreign trip to Germany immediately after announcing her unconditional surrender.

Four days after the president returned home, the United States dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan.

The second was Donald Trump, who first visited Saudi Arabia, which some have traditionally considered an unfriendly country to the United States.

During that visit, it was announced that weapons worth $ 110 billion were sold to the kingdom.

The expert pointed out that at the beginning of the presidential term, US presidents used to visit Canada (a total of eight times) and Mexico (four times).

Thus, Joe Biden was the first president of the United States to choose Switzerland to visit inaugurating his “foreign tour”.

Yesterday, the Kremlin officially confirmed that the first in-person meeting of Presidents Putin and Biden will take place on June 16 in Geneva.

The two leaders are expected to discuss issues of strategic stability, fighting the epidemic, the international agenda and regional conflicts.