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by bingojess 2952 days ago
Engineering an election to install a malleable leader in a rival country is the holy grail if you ask me. Developing the cyber equivalent of WMDs to get what you want is a relatively blunt tool, just like how North Korea is doing but they use nukes
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It can backfire spectacularly, though, as the US (but sadly not the CIA) learned with their adventures with the Shah in Iran.