And since Biden never had a chance of being the candidate, was it really asking to investigate an opponent?

Uh are you ever in for a surprise. Latvia was investigating Hunter Biden and his partner and money laundering $1.8 through Burisma................. before February 2016. (Trump was inaugurated in January 2017) AND John Kerry whose step-son had the integrity to terminate his business dealings with Biden even said that Obama and administration pushed to fire the Ukraine prosecutor 2 weeks after the investigation into Hunter BIDEN was made public. Now we get to hear about the Profile in Corruption of multiple members of the BIDEN family, like one of JOE BIDEN'S brothers whose company got a US government contract to build 500,000 houses in Iraq, hmmmm, from the Obama Administration, just like HUNTER BIDEN being on the board of an oil company with absolutely no experience. For someone who claims to be "all skeptical" you sure are ignorant and hate filled regarding the truth. If I wasn't so polite and nice, I'd say you are really panheadupyourass.

I haven't heard about Latvia but I'm not sure if your claims about Ukraine are accurate. Or at the very least the way you're framing it seems misleading. Maybe I'm wrong idk.. as far as I know "Hunter Biden" was never being investigated by Ukraine.. Burisma was being investigated for sh*t that happened before Hunter was on the board..

Darko, This information is out there, unfortunately with the current advocacy agenda of our media you really have to dig deep to gather the information to figure out what is the truth. Another example of the deep bias of US media is the amount of coverage given to Trump hater who hoped to kill and maim volunteers at a Republican "Get Out the Vote" effort in Florida this past weekend. Charlotteville, VA is still referred to on a weekly basis as evidence of the evil forces behind Trump. This will get no mentions after Wednesday.
Documents show when Biden and his partner started receiving payments, when Kerry's stepson, to his credit refused to be a part of the money laundering, even NY Times and WaPo stories contemporary with the event questioned the optics of the arrangement H. Biden had as J. Biden was VP.
You are absolutely correct that Burisma was being investigated prior to H.B. coming on the board. There is a lot of evidence that points to Biden's involvement on the board was an insurance policy to shield the corruption. When you see the timeline, especially the request by Latvia's Financial Crimes Investigation Unit (laundering of criminally attained cash types of crimes) of the similar anti-corruption unit in Ukraine and the firing of Shokin (who had been appointed only 10 months earlier to crack down on corruption in Ukraine) during VP Biden's visit 2 weeks later, exactly as Joe Biden described himself in a later video of his comments.
Back to an earlier point, I look to a lot of international news sites for perspective and a better opportunity to find the truth. For example the Jerusalem Post and AL Jareza for middle east issues. Please forgive any mispellings, I'm a little short on time to edit.

How delusional must one be to actually think Biden is a viable candidate? No fkn way you actually believe that nonsense.