[Aerich didn't understand most of the technology, so he focused on the geopolitics. That is something he can understand, because it is people, and regardless of their exact nature, something about people does not change.]

Ah, so this 'Skynet', knowing its own life was at risk, elected to stage a diversion by starting a war between its enemy and their other enemy, in hopes of diverting the attempts against its life.

[Given the second most destructive event in Aerich's world's history was due to a coup backfiring spectacularly, and obliterating the capital city of his own Empire, with even experts uncertain about what a 'safe distance' would be, this... well, it is concerning, but comprehensible in ways the descriptions were not. So is choosing a weapon that would poison the enemy, but not oneself, even if... well, his world doesn't have the concept of 'war crime', but even given the state of war, involving other nations is dishonorable.]

I am grateful that you were the being brought here, and not this Skynet. Even without the weapons.