Originally Posted by pondering_it_all
At the moment the Russian troll strategy seems to be to promote Bernie, since they think he's the easiest Democrat for Trump to beat.

Nah. Russia has a simple enough strategy - promote disruption and seek to degrade authority. Bernie is the disruptor on the Democrat side this year, just as Trump was on the Republican side in 2016. In both years Russia sought to boost the signal of the extremes, and try to goad them into conflict with each other.