Totally correct about the ETI - not sure if you ever read this one of mine about that subject: inadifferentplace.subst…

I am also with the Columbians on this one. What is - or should be - obvious is that the UN is not fit for purpose and clearly no longer functions. As such, countries who do care and want to do something should, from now on, simply ignore the UN (as, ironically, Israel does), not discuss it at all at the UN, not wait for some arbitrary approval (which would never be forthcoming), but instead just organise themselves into a military coalition and wipe the fucking monsters off the fucking map forever.

It is the thinking of them as human, and worthy of some sort of moral consideration, which has prevented humanity from sorting its shit out.