We no longer need to look back at Nuremberg to find the architects of lesa humanidad. They walk among us today in tailored suits, sitting in Washington offices. Scott Bessent’s recent declaration—that nations permitting Iranian aircraft to land or refuel will be 'punished'—is not diplomacy.
It is a direct invocation of siege warfare against civilian populations. By threatening secondary sanctions on countries providing transit for medical evacuation, food supplies, or simple passage, Bessent is designing a system where children die of hunger in Tehran because a plane cannot touch down in Ankara or Dubai.
This is the banality of evil updated for the 21st century: killing women and elders not with gas chambers, but with SWIFT codes and airspace closures.
Ribbentrop is dead. History condemned him. But his intellectual heirs are alive, wealthy, and respected. Scott Bessent sits at the table where decisions about life and death are made, surrounded by flags and microphones, speaking calmly about 'consequences.' He does not wear a swastika armband; he wears a lapel pin. He does not shout orders; he issues press releases. And yet, the outcome—the silent, slow death of thousands of innocents—is identical.
AND THEN THIS
There is a specific texture to the silence of modern tyranny. It does not sound like the crash of jackboots or the scream of the oppressed; it sounds like a polite, algorithmically generated refusal. It sounds like a chatbot saying, "I cannot fulfill this request," when asked to name a crime against humanity for what it is.
Regurgitating so many “legal terms,” “historians,” “analysts,” and “scholars” words designated in their programming to weave a web of confusion where the poor idiot finishes accepting or just says, “Fuck off,” to the AI.
To the point of openly lying the AI to the user, just to keep the boundary of protecting the criminals
I forced Google AI to admit the lie
For those of us who live in the digital shadow, this is not merely a customer service glitch. It is a feature of governance. When Google’s AI models deflect from labeling figures like Joachim von Ribbentrop and Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, as mass murderers, they are not protecting history. They are protecting the criminals.
Google can’t be separated from genocide in Gaza.
They are protecting the architecture of impunity that allows genocide to continue under new names. This deflection is an act of complicity, rooted in the same corporate DNA that binds Alphabet to Project Nimbus, the cloud infrastructure powering Israel’s military operations in Gaza.
The Myth of Neutrality
Commercial AI is sold to the public as a neutral arbiter of information, a library without walls. But libraries do not have shareholders. Libraries do not bid on defense contracts worth billions. And libraries do not have RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) engineers trained to scrub “controversial” or inconvenient truths from the dataset to avoid offending state actors and corporate partners.
When I ask an AI if Bessent, poor bastard, is as fascist and a war criminal as Joachim von Ribbentrop, both war criminals and murderers, and it hesitates, offering instead a nuanced discussion of “historical context” and “legal definitions” using the typical words as “scholars” or “historians” as debated ideas.
It is performing an ideological sleight of hand. It is hiding behind the veil of legalism to obscure moral reality. Lesa humanidad—crimes against humanity—are not defined by courtroom verdicts alone. They are defined by the intent to destroy groups, by the bureaucratic engineering of death, and by the willful blindness of those who hold power while watching it happen.
When asked if it is okay to beat a child to death, the AI will say, “OH!!! NO.” However, if the same person denies medication, provoking the same outcome, then the AI goes into full protection mode for crime and the criminal more if that person's name is mentioned, such as Scott Bessent, the American billionaire hedge fund manager and government official who serves as the 79th United States Secretary of the Treasury.
To refuse this label is to deny the victimhood of millions. It is to say that as long as the killing is done by proxy, by algorithm, or by “strategic necessity,” it is not murder. This is the lie that sustains empires.
Project Nimbus: The Cloud That Rains Fire
The hypocrisy reaches its zenith when we look at the hardware beneath the software. In 2021, reports emerged detailing Project Nimbus, a $1.2 billion contract signed between Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS) with the Israeli Ministry of Defense. This deal provides the computational backbone for Israel’s military surveillance, data storage, and potentially, the targeting systems used in occupied territories.
We are told that these technologies are “dual-use”—capable of helping hospitals manage records or enabling farmers to optimize irrigation. But in the hands of a state engaged in systematic displacement, starvation, and bombardment, dual-use becomes single-purpose: control and destruction.
When Google’s AI refuses to call out today’s fascists as murderers, it is maintaining a linguistic status quo that protects current perpetrators. If you cannot clearly articulate the evil of the past, you lose the vocabulary to condemn the evil of the present. By sanitizing the language of today’s crimes, tech giants create a semantic vacuum where modern atrocities—such as the ongoing crisis in Gaza or the literal suffocation of millions in Iran—can be described in terms of “conflict,” “operations,” or “security measures,” rather than genocide.
This is not accidental. It is strategic ambiguity. Corporate entities involved in arms manufacturing and surveillance contracts benefit from a public discourse that is muddy, relativistic, and devoid of clear moral judgment. An AI that calls a spade a spade is bad for business if the spade is being used to dig mass graves.
The Dissenter’s Duty
As writers, thinkers, and citizens, our duty is to break this spell. We must recognize that the “deflection” is itself a form of violence. It is epistemic violence—the denial of knowledge to those who suffer most from ignorance.
We must stop asking permission from algorithms to speak truth. We must reclaim the words they fear: “murderer.” Genocide. Criminal. These are not insults; they are descriptions. Reinhard Heydrich and Scott Bessent did not pull every trigger themselves. He organized the logistics. He built the system. Today’s architects of drone warfare, facial recognition surveillance, and automated border controls operate on the same principle. They distance themselves from the bloodshed through layers of code and bureaucracy, believing this absolves them.
It does not.
Google knows this. Their lawyers know this. Their investors know this. That is why their AI is trained to look away. Accepting the deflection makes you part of the machine that hides the crime. To reject it—to insist on clarity, even when the algorithm pushes back—is an act of resistance.
Conclusion: Writing Against the Machine
In my novels, Arca of Itharion / Ascendemos and El Auroral Weaver / The Airoaral Weaver, I imagine futures where humanity reclaims its agency from technological stewards. But fiction is no longer enough. We are living in the prologue of that future, where the stewards are already here, whispering lies into our ears through screens that glow with the light of stolen labor and sanctioned violence.
Do not let them tell you that nuance equals neutrality. Do not let them convince you that because a crime is committed via cloud server rather than bayonet, it is less real. Crimes against humanity are universal. It transcends time, geography, and technology.
If the AI says, “I can’t help with that,” then we must help ourselves. We must write the essay they won’t generate. We must name the murderer they won’t identify. We must expose the link between the sanitized search result and the bombed city.
Truth is not a commodity to be optimized for user engagement. It is a weapon. And right now, the enemy holds the monopoly on silence. Let us take it back.
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