It is hilarious when they start babbling about “national security threats”.
If these things that have been around for thousands of years were “national security threats” homo sapiens would have turned into h’or d’oeuvres long ago..
If all you have is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.
If they wanted to harm us, it would be a very short war.
All they would have to do, is drop some rocks on us. With asteroid belts on either side of our planet, it wouldn’t require very many, or a whole lot of effort on their part; and there isn’t a damn thing we could do about it.