On a trip to Latvia in 2016, then-vice president Joe Biden told gathered Baltic leaders not to take Donald Trump seriously.
"Don't listen to that other fellow. He knows not of what he speaks", Biden jokingly assured.
A few months later, Trump was in the Oval Office...
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Dr Andris Banka is a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) at the University of Greifswald, Germany, and has written extensively on Baltic security matters in policy outlets such as War on The Rocks, The Modern War Institute at West Point, World Politics Review, and Euronews.