Let's say the US balkanizes, becomes decentralized and finally stateless. What to do with the nukes that were left over? Who controls them if there's no central power? Obviously, there should just be no nukes, but let's say other countries that are still states have them, so would it be prudent to denuclearize?
The aliens are comrades. Capitalists could never build sustainable interstellar vehicles, there's no profit in interstellar travel plus they'd inevitably consume each other. Capitalism is the Great Filter. A dolphin told me this.