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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


It can backfire spectacularly, though, as the US (but sadly not the CIA) learned with their adventures with the Shah in Iran.




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