The Tech Fascist Axis
Tech fascism is expanding globally. It is enabled by a growing network of nation-state alliances, forming a new axis of tech fascism.
Israel, Argentina, El Salvador, Saudi Arabia, and the growing Network State form key global political partnerships pushing tech fascism forward.
These partnerships serve important functions, providing capital and investment, the expansion of the crypto economic system, weapons development and arms deals, support for human rights abuses, land for Network State projects, unregulated development zones and tech mega-projects. They also enable predation of the global south, exploitation of natural resources, and uncontrollable collaborations on data, intelligence and surveillance. In these alliances we see shared ideologies as well: Zionism, anti-leftism and anti-communism, anti-immigration, elevation of militancy and warfare, libertarian economics, IQ supremacy, technocracy, race science and eugenics.
Alliances between rich nations -- like the Network State, Israel and Saudi Arabia -- differ from alliances with poor nations like Argentina and El Salvador. In the latter cases, countries in the global south are targets, and their contact with tech fascism and venture capital results in the transformation of their countries. Tech mega-projects emerge, natural resources are harnessed for datacenter and AI projects, cryptocurrency is installed, large influxes of the tech and crypto class occur, and taxes and regulation on foreign technological development and investment are eliminated, allowing venture capitalists to build strongholds in the region. In the case of El Salvador, there is wide-scale imprisonment and human rights abuses, including torture and state murder, coinciding with its transformation to a crypto state.
There is significant risk that this model will spread throughout countries in the global south, particularly those in Latin America and Africa -- key targets of the Network State -- and that more rich nations will join the axis.
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has a long-term relationship with Silicon Valley tech fascists, who have benefitted from significant funding from the Saudis. Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund [PIF] has invested in Uber. Its venture capital arm, Sanabil, is an investor in Founders Fund (Peter Thiel's VC firm), Andreessen Horowitz and Craft Ventures (David Sacks' VC firm). These firms sit at the center of tech fascism and the development of the Network State, and have attained massive power through compromising of the US executive. Saudi Arabia has thus been a key backer of the rise of tech fascism, its AI projects, and its weapons projects.
A major focus of Saudi Arabia's PIF is "giga-projects", backing the futuristic new city NEOM, the "destination city" Qiddiya, and Red Sea Global, "developer of two of the world’s most ambitious regenerative tourism projects". Several prominent Silicon Valley tech fascists have served on the board of NEOM, which announced in 2018 that Sam Altman and Marc Andreessen would join "to provide industry insight, advise on key milestones and forge strategic connections for NEOM."
Saudi Arabia's giga-project concept shares key features with the Network State, with the focus on large-scale, tech and entrepreneurship cities. NEOM describes itself in similar language to Network State propaganda, stating "NEOM is the land of the future where the greatest minds and best talents are empowered to embody pioneering ideas and exceed boundaries in a world inspired by imagination." PIF states "NEOM is being built as a living laboratory, a place where entrepreneurship and innovation will chart the course for a new future." NEOM has similar focal areas as the Network State, including energy, financial services, and biotech, advertising "a cutting-edge biotech innovation ecosystem". Wealth funds and venture capital are at the center of the model -- PIF funds venture capital firms and is focused on the creation of new startup enterprises and new tech cities.
In 2024, the documentary Kingdom Uncovered: Inside Saudi Arabia, "revealed the total amount of worker deaths related to Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Vision 2030, a multitrillion dollar program which includes NEOM and the Line. According to the exposé by ITV, more than 21,000 Indian, Bangladeshi, and Nepalese workers have died in Saudi Arabia since 2017 working on various aspects of Saudi Vision 2030. And according to The Hindustan Times, reports show that more than 100,000 people have 'disappeared' during NEOM’s construction. Workers also say that, under current working conditions, they are 'trapped slaves' and 'beggars.' There’s also been reports of wage theft, illegal working hours, and human rights abuses. More than 20,000 Indigenous people were also forcefully removed from the region to make way for NEOM."
Since the inauguration of Donald Trump's second term, there has been tremendous activity around Saudi Arabia and its partnerships with tech fascists in the United States. In May 2025, there was a major delegation of the Trump administration and tech fascists to Saudi Arabia. It was attended by tech fascist luminaries including Elon Musk, Sam Altman of OpenAI, Travis Kalanick of Uber, Larry Fink of Blackrock, Palantir CEO Alex Karp, Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz, Jensen Huang of Nvidia, and other key figures in tech power.
The White House released a fact sheet on the large economic deals announced over the summit:
"President Donald J. Trump announced Saudi Arabia’s $600-billion commitment to invest in the United States, building economic ties that will endure for generations to come. The first deals under the announcement strengthen our energy security, defense industry, technology leadership, and access to global infrastructure and critical minerals....
Underscoring our commitment to strengthening our defense and security partnership, the United States and Saudi Arabia signed the largest defense sales agreement in history—nearly $142 billion, providing Saudi Arabia with state-of-the-art warfighting equipment and services from over a dozen U.S. defense firms. The sales that we intend to complete fall into five broad categories: (1) air force advancement and space capabilities, (2) air and missile defense, (3) maritime and coastal security, (4) border security and land forces modernization, and (5) information and communication systems upgrades."
The specific defense firms have not been released to the public; however, long-time Saudi backing of VC firms involved in dozens of weapons companies makes their inclusion likely.
The inclusion of BlackRock, a major crypto financial services operation, indicates possible movement towards crypto adoption by Saudi Arabia. This would dramatically change the global financial landscape as a force-multiplier in crypto adoption by power and elite across the world.
Israel
Israel has an extraordinarily close relationship with tech fascists. It is itself a tech fascist country, engaged in a genocide while its economy is a tech powerhouse, now positioned to grow even more. According to a report from Israeli tech tracker Startup Nation Central,
"In 2024, Israel solidified its position as a global scale-up powerhouse. Despite ongoing war and geopolitical tensions, the tech ecosystem achieved remarkable milestones—unexpected funding levels, high-value M&A deals, and stellar performance by public companies... The Israeli tech ecosystem, with a GDP share double that of the U.S. tech sector, led Israel’s economic growth with a 2.2% increase in high-tech GDP (Q1–Q3 2024), while the overall economy contracted by 1.5%... Israeli tech companies raised over $12 billion in 2024, marking a 27% year-over-year increase... 2024 marked Israel’s strongest year for acquisition-driven exits, with total event values approaching record highs"
As in the case of Saudi Arabia, Israel is an investor in Silicon Valley venture capital firms. Israel's Vintage Investment Partners is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz, as well as General Catalyst, both of which have significant portfolios of weapons startups. Andreessen Horowitz was one of the top investors in Israeli startups in 2024. A number of venture capital-funded weapons are actively in use in the genocide of Palestinians. They include Palantir, Skydio, Shield AI, ShotSpotter, Toka and Ghost Robotics.
Tech fascists are open zionists and genocide mongers. Shortly after October 7th, Palantir took out a full-page ad in the New York Times stating "Palantir Stands with Israel." In October of 2023, over 800 venture capitalists signed the “Venture Capital Community Statement of Support for Israel."
"“Israel has been an enduring partner to the global innovation ecosystem, fostering groundbreaking technological advancements and startup innovation. The nation's contribution to the world in terms of technology, research, and entrepreneurship is invaluable, and we hold deep respect for its unwavering commitment to progress…
In the spirit of peace and unity, we encourage the global venture community to support and engage with Israeli startups, entrepreneurs, and investors as they navigate through these challenging times."
Israel and Zionism are cited as key inspirations for the Network State, referring to the Network State as a "distributed Zion" in the book, The Network State, and citing Israel's establishment as aspirational for the Network State.
Donald Trump, installed by venture capitalists and with an administration full of venture capitalists from the PayPal Mafia and Andreessen Horowitz, has made a number of statements about turning Gaza into a special economic zone. Per Time Magazine: "in February, President Trump shared an AI video on his social media platform TruthSocial depicting 'Trump Gaza.' The video included AI-generated images of a golden statue of the U.S. President in Gaza, luxury cars, and skyscrapers in a reconstructed Gaza Strip."
In April, 2025, during a meeting with Netanyahu at the White House, he stated "I think it's an incredible piece of important real estate... And I think it's something that we would be involved in, but you know having a peace force like the United States there, controlling and owning the Gaza Strip, would be a good thing." In May 2025, he stated "I think I’d be proud to have the United States have it, take it, make it a freedom zone... I have concepts for Gaza that I think are very good. Make it a freedom zone, let the United States get involved.”
A more complete treatment of the ties between tech fascists and Israel can be found on this research site in the document Venture Capital and the Genocide.
Argentina
The president of Argentina, Javiar Milei, was elected in 2023. His presidency has been cheered and promoted by the top brass of tech fascists, including Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Mark Zuckerberg, Brian Armstrong of Coinbase, and Elon Musk. In 2024, he did an official tour of Silicon Valley, meeting many of these parties.
Milei has made massive cuts to the government and it services and organs since his election, resulting in widespread poverty, unrest, and attacks on the schooling system, students and retirees. His gutting of the government has been a key inspiration for DOGE.
ClimateWire reported that in June 2024, "Elon Musk attended a free-market confab via Zoom to toast Argentina’s regulation-slashing president, Javier Milei. Musk used the opportunity to laud Milei's progress in 'deleting entire departments' of the Argentine bureaucracy — and to extol the virtues of deregulation. 'There has to be some garbage collection process for removing rules and regulations in order for society to function and not to get hardening of the arteries just to the point where you can't do anything,' Musk said."
Milei ran, and now bases his administration on, the political platform of tech fascism in key respects, presenting at Davos 2025, referring to Elon Musk as "my dear friend", and identifying new partners in a "new way of doing politics":
"we are an example of a new way of doing politics, which is about telling people the truth to their faces and trusting that they will understand. Nor do I feel alone because over the course of this year, I have found allies in this fight for the ideas of freedom in every corner of the world – from the amazing Elon Musk to that fierce Italian lady, my dear Giorgia Meloni; from Bukele in El Salvador to Viktor Orbán in Hungary; from Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel to Donald Trump in the United States – slowly an international alliance has been forming among all those nations which, like ours, want to be free and believe in the ideas of liberty."
He stated that Argentina had been "infected by socialism for far too long", and that "what once seemed like the absolute global hegemony of the woke left in politics and educational institutions, in the media, in supranational organizations, or even in forums like Davos, has begun to crumble." Further: "it is our moral duty and our historical responsibility to dismantle the ideological edifice of sickly wokeism, until we have succeeded in rebuilding our historical cathedral." He extols "our pioneering spirit", and "Western civilization" which "represents the pinnacle of human achievement on the fertile ground of its Greco-Roman heritage and Judeo-Christian values."
He railed against "feminism, diversity, inclusion, equity, immigration, abortion, environmentalism, gender ideology" and trans people. He repeated libertarian themes of limiting the power of the state, and called for a "drastic reduction in the size of the state... but also the drastic reduction of all supranational organizations." These are common ideological themes across the tech fascist axis.
His speech at Davos echos Marc Andreessen's "Techno-Optimist Manifesto", which states:
"Our present society has been subjected to a mass demoralization campaign for six decades – against technology and against life – under varying names like 'existential risk', 'sustainability', 'ESG', 'Sustainable Development Goals', 'social responsibility', 'stakeholder capitalism', 'Precautionary Principle', 'trust and safety', 'tech ethics', 'risk management', 'de-growth', 'the limits of growth'."
Like other countries in the tech fascist axis, Argentina is moving into large-scale tech development projects, including bringing in foreign investment to build nuclear power plants; a quote from Demian Reidel, Argentina's head of nuclear power policy, states: "My dream is to have a place in Patagonia called Nuclear City, where you come with your project and you can just plug it in. The only thing that can supply the energy deficit created by the gigantic data centres the world needs is nuclear."
The Argentinean Ministry of Security has introduced programs "to apply Artificial Intelligence in the prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of crime and its connections," through the creation of a Unit of Artificial Intelligence Applied to Security.
In 2024, Argentina saw $415 million in startup investment, "more than triple year-earlier levels." Argentina, like El Salvador, has created a program to incentivize foreign investment, implementing the "Incentive Regime for Large Investments (RIGI)". It includes reduction or elimination in federal income tax, federal dividends tax, export taxes, trade restrictions and capital controls; per the Atlantic Council, "the RIGI is designed to isolate investors from the most pervasive structural risks in the Argentine economy for the term of a major capital investment."
Argentina sits on the Lithium Triangle, a massive resource for the batteries needed across tech devices and infrastructure.
El Salvador
El Salvador became the first explicitly tech fascist country with the election of Nayib Bukele. He has implemented a policy of internal repression and violence, while opening up the country to exploitation by venture capital and turning the country into a crypto state. The massive human rights abuses of the regime -- locking up over 100,000 people without due process, are deeply related to the quest to transform the country into a tech capital.
El Salvador has adopted and continuously accumulates large amounts of Bitcoin, and the country is often referred to by its officials as "Bitcoin Country". It has attracted large amounts of crypto tourism while suspending taxation and regulation for the foreign tech class. El Salvador has also become a major player in the Bitcoin mining industry, powered with geothermal energy by the country's volcanos.
El Salvador is working on the construction of Bitcoin City, a mega-project reminiscent of NEOM and the Network State, with the goals of bringing in foreign investment, growing the tech and crypto industries, and courting the crypto class.
Its airport is already under construction; per reporting from the Guardian, "Bukele envisions a tax-free economic hub, with the airport a key part of making it accessible to international investors and crypto entrepreneurs." 225 households have been displaced: "[Elmer] Martínez, a local representative of the movement for the ancestral peoples of El Salvador, and his neighbours were first approached in 2022 by government officials. In the following years, they went through what they considered 'predatory negotiations' for the agricultural-based communities to sell their homes in exchange for 'inadequate compensation'."
This is reminiscent of the predatory operations of venture capitalists in Solano County, California, as well as NEOM and the displacement of indigenous people for the Network State site of Itana in Nigeria.
The CEO of the Network State colony Próspera, located in Honduras, went to El Salvador to meet with Bukele in November 2023. He stated "I congratulate President @nayibbukele for your vision for El Salvador, and wish you continued great success... I’m excited about the possibility of bringing the Próspera vision to El Salvador and being part of that success!" Próspera's communications team stated: "A truly enriching meeting between President @nayibbukele and our founder and CEO @erickbrimen where shared visions for the future were explored. At a crucial moment for ZEDEs [special economic zones], we're thrilled about the possibility of collaborating with El Salvador and continuing to expand horizons for Próspera."
Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz of Andreessen Horowitz — primary Network State financiers — went on delegation to El Salvador in late February or early March 2025 "to discuss tech investment opportunities in the country. The meeting, facilitated by the National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC), highlighted El Salvador’s ambition to become a regional tech hub." An X post released by the National Bitcoin Office confirmed topics included "Investment opportunities in El Salvador as an emerging regional tech hub focused on freedom technologies" as well as "the AI landscape in a post DeepSeek environment" and "Open source vs proprietary models in AI." The Office also stated "El Salvador is establishing itself as the premier destination in the region for innovators, entrepreneurs and investors to come build extraordinary things."
El Salvador has also increased its relations with Saudi Arabia; according to the report "Nayib Bukele and Saudi Arabia: A New Era of Relations" from the Gulf Research Center:
"One of the clearest signs of the growing relationship between El Salvador and Saudi Arabia is the inauguration of El Salvador's first embassy in Riyadh on May 2, 2024. This historic event marks a milestone in the diplomatic ties between the two nations..."
The countries signed an agreement "aimed at enhancing developmental cooperation. This agreement, signed in Riyadh, paves the way for a significant project involving biogas power generation and wastewater treatment in the Acelhuate River area, funded by a development loan from the Saudi fund..." Meanwhile, mutual exports between the countries have increased significantly in the past five years.
This is only one example of the complex and growing relationships between players in the new tech fascist axis. See more information about El Salvador and tech fascism on this site.
Conclusion
The facts laid out in this document demonstrate increasingly close and serious bonds between nation-states that collaborate to forward the goals and achievements of tech fascism. They risk starting a "domino effect", endangering underdeveloped countries in the global south while promising to enrich the global elite.
Tech fascism is a threat to the peace and prosperity of the world, and the development of a new tech fascist bloc is cause for global investigation and alarm.