Bad ETs will want to cloak as goodies. Do not announce what goos ETs want! They are listening and taking notes! No, they will come immitating, pretending to be good ETs, saying and promising to us ALL THAT PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR -'we will end wars, bring new medicine, you will live longer, you will live in fair society,no more inequality, no more social classes'. Just wait and see. It will start with digital ID that is already in working in China. That ID will have/do everything: medical records, all banking/payments systems, parking, car tax/insurance,social credit system. All will be on one card, and after that they will move into chipping people. But that digital ID will be a precursor. They will give people pittance with universal income, stuck them all into cities,into tiniest boxes away from nature...you will be punished vis social credit score if you dont comply, if you dare spend elecricity or fuel to go to the nature. If you want to leave the city, or buy too much food, you will be punished, and get poorer. And all the while they will rage the wars everywhere, in your name or in the name of your country, and then blame others for those wars, and then they will come and ANNOUNCE to us as our SAVIOURS! That is the recipe: they create a problem, and then come to us with the philantropic promises of a solution, how our civilization is destined to end 'war of all WARS', everywhere in universe. They will eventually come to us in an advanced form of communism as 'peacekeepers'. We who lived through comunism, we know their recipe. Chinese are completely blinded. Because, they will drill into peoples mind the 'new-found' patriotism, and all these hard core right wingers will be first politically used, and then used in wars, then betrayed and culled, in the worst possible way. I had my grandparents tell me stories you cannot even imagine. I do not want to depress people. But, first they will be recruiting young male population to go to wars as cannon fodder ( Putin has no problem recruiting young Russians, even women! Even after 1mil already dead in Ukraine, and neither Zelensky has any problem recruiting!). So, after they raised our male children on porn, who now they cannot even find jobs - then they will send them to wars. Go no further, just see 1930s history. Today already 15 year olds are eagerly lining up in Britain who want to join army. Same old thing ALL OVER AGAIN!
Yeah that's pretty much the plan.
But if I was the bad guy, doing it all in one shot would be a terrible idea.
For us to distinguish between good and bad, I believe requires a bit of internal soul-searching but also some common sense.
The good guys are far from perfect.
They practice collective freedom. That has to be at least a little bit messy at times. It has to have members that are light and flaky, and grumpy and sour, and downright prepared for violence, and kind of ridiculous a silky, and sort of creepy.
The good guys are and probably always will be sort of good and if you're looking for the puritan good guys you are already in the trap. If that's what you pledge to fight for you are already on the wrong side. If you want something orderly you are already setting your standards too high.
There's a trend growing in the populace we refer to as micronations. It's often looked at as a sort of fantasy LARPing hobby.
Well suppose just a few of those micronations get law-savvy advocates. Suppose just a few of them get clusters of soldiers who will gladly alliege with them just to get out of the meaningless battlefield they're getting sent to.
All I'm saying is maybe the "galactic federation" starts here on the ground. Farsight has said this quite a few times. Don't wait for a rescue.