I’d consider it much more likely that the globalists would announce contact with our ‘friends’, but that they refuse to have more developed contact with a backward planet that refuses to:
1) Have a unified, global government
2) Socialism or some happy-go-feely variant
3) “Responsible, sustainable management of resources”
4) Including population...
You get the idea. And what do you know, if we would only just make these things happen, then they could give us all these wonderful things like free anti-grav, cures to cancer/aging, all that good stuff.
Now, what Gaia loving globalist wouldn’t want to sign up for that plan?
:P
Either that, or I’m just writing a sci-fi novel in my spare time...
Very possible.