It’s no wonder, writes Tamir Pardo, that when Russia considered its anti-Western geopolitical ambitions, it “took a look at the political map in Washington, ‘and thought, which candidate would we like to have sitting in the White House? Who will help us achieve our goals? And they chose him [Trump]. From that moment, they deployed a system [of bots] for the length of the elections, and ran him for president.’”