Extortion is bad, the cyberverse agrees with on that.
However they also agree that attempts to hide important details in order to sway public opinion to your side are equally bad.
#1) Your Forum AA lists "The Foreign Division" yet you are listed as this 'independent' as in none, and your aid screen shows you very recently as
"Tyberion Covenant". As recent as 3/25. Thus you have been a member of two alliances previously and left both of them, without readily known reasons such as a war/merger etc. This is supported by your
in game nation Bio which says:
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Notatalldude is not inactive, but he lubs warz

ID: 200208-332 Message me if you are interested in any kind of tech deal, I'll buy tech from really, really, new nations or sell it for a price to really old ones

ID numbers in bio being a hallmark tag of a nation in an alliance.
#2) While you admitted to tech raiding including the one you are currently attacking (which btw generally people will not assist in defending you from raids, while you are actively committing them), your bio listed above is written almost as a challenge that you don;t mind being raided, as it is difficult to see it as a sarcastic threat like "Always INACTVE" or other such phrases. Hard to say you are not willing to fight a 1v1 out when your bio states that you "lubs warz".
#3) The nation which is attacking you was quite recently ALSO in "The Foreign Division" according to
their aid screen then suddenly a few hours after being in TFD and accepting $3 million from them for "Pass it On" your attacker leaves TFD changing their AA to "Exiled Coalition" and attacks you for the reason of "It's Time Boy" all according to their
war screen.
#4) Also from their war screen you can see that mere minutes later, this other nation switches AA tags to
DUNDER MIFFLIN one of those annoying all caps alliances out there. Then attacks another apparently randomly, then gives peace right away. The DoW used in that being the default "a general dispute".
#5) Based on your main and aid screens, you could send the tech to him and buyers, thus this is a case of you not wanting to do so, rather than are unable, despite your claim. If your aid slots were maxed out, you could claim that you have 5 long term deals going on, but they are not, in fact only 1 such aid appears ot be so, the aid to this
other nation is not based on, and since they received aid from a TFD applicant awhile back it appears to be aid to a friend of a personal nature.
Thus it seems that you have some previous connection or association with this attacker that you are failing to mention as well as:
A-As he was given aid from an alliance in what appears to be a chain, yet left, claiming exile, and was not pursued.
B- Your attacker's DoW, when compared to their other DoW seems to also indicate familiarity and a more 'personal' reason for these attacks, than you have stated.
C- Attacked you, also an ex member of the same alliance!
D- Why you claim to have been hit by tech raiders A LOT over the past week, but in fact have spent half of the past week in the Tyberion Covenant.
E- Why you claimed that he was unaligned when by the time you would have gotten the war against you PMs and nearly 12 hours before you posted this he was in the DUNDER MIFFLIN AA.
F- Why you need advice on war, when you have over quadruple the combined casualties of your opponent?
G- How this war stops you from delivering your contracted tech.
H- Why we should believe that the nation in question gives others peace without extortion, but not you.