Maybe they're waiting for us to clean up this crap and will then they'll talk with us. Until that happens, it might be like us driving by a neighbor's house and seeing them fighting all the time, throwing shit out the car windows when they're driving, being rude to others in the neighbor hood - just being generally avoidable. And they've quarantined the planet, so to speak, because of our nukes.
Maybe they're waiting for us to clean up this crap and will then they'll talk with us. Until that happens, it might be like us driving by a neighbor's house and seeing them fighting all the time, throwing shit out the car windows when they're driving, being rude to others in the neighbor hood - just being generally avoidable. And they've quarantined the planet, so to speak, because of our nukes.