The selection of the meeting place of the US President Joe Bayden and the Russian leader Vladimir Putin “leads to a stupor.” Such an opinion expressed analyst Forbes Ken Roberts.
According to him, in the entire history of the reign of American presidents, they almost never chose the opponent region for the first meetings. The exception is only two cases that can be close to perceive as “the entry of the US leader to the hostile territory.”
The 33rd US President Harry Truman made his first foreign trip to Germany after the unconditional surrender of the Third Reich in May 1945 and took part in the Potsdam Conference established the main parameters of the post-war development of Europe. Four days after his return, the United States dropped the first of the two atomic bombs to Japan.
Donald Trump made a trip to Saudi Arabia, who is discrepanable for the United States by the state, announced during the visit to the sale of weapons of the Arab country by $ 110 billion.
At the beginning of the presidential term, US leaders tend to visit Canada and Mexico. In the whole history, US presidents chose these countries for the first visit eight and four times, respectively.
Joe Biden first of the US presidents chose Switzerland for the visiting “foreign tour”. According to the observer, if the American leader wanted to show non-standard and “go straight on the enemy as a president”, he could choose a dominant power, like China, and not largely neutral Switzerland, considers the observer.
Earlier it was reported that the meeting of the Presidents of Russia and the United States Vladimir Putin and Joe Bayiden will be held on June 16 in Geneva. As a press secretary of the Russian leader Dmitry Sadkov died, the details of the talks still have to coordinate. The White House, in turn, confirmed the date of the coming summit, the press secretary of the American leader Jen Psaki reported that the heads of state would discuss the entire spectrum of topical issues, reminding that Washington seeks to restore predictability and stability in Russian-American relations.