>>1715225
iirc, in the overarching story, the dystopian AI hellhole shown in 2 and 4 pretty much IS SIGINT's fault.
Zero has the idea for information control and suppression, and that was done by *people* in MSGV to obscure the fact that Big Boss lived through the attack on the first MB. During that, Skull Face tortured the information of Zero's real whereabouts - Hell's Kitchen - to deliver him a package with a parasite infestation that nearly kills him on the spot. He's able to hit a panic button before falling unconscious, but his faculties slowly decline even after he's rescued.
After he recovers enough to make decisions, he passes Cipher's control over to SIGINT and commissions the Patriot AI to handle information control, and pretty much just waits for death while lamenting Big Boss' near death and the schism they had over Les Infants Terribles.
SIGINT develops the AI into something completely autonomous, but it also exists to propagate itself. SIGINT is a nigger. He's smart, but he did not have the forethought to realize that a self-propogating information control system would fall into information control loops that would lead to war as a commodity and the war economy. War is profitable, war keeps the information machine relevant, therefore pockets of war were constantly popping up around the world, exacerbated by the Sons of the Patriots system.
There's a human element to control that he missed entirely, which Big Boss saw pretty clearly before his final defeat at Zanzibarland.
This is also one of six founders of a shadow group that effectively controls the world - and in a period of slow worldwide demilitarization, was either bribed or in total agreement with the Metal Gear REX project.
Ironically, that period in history was the closest that Cipher/the Patriots came to realizing the Boss' dream of a unified world.