It's one of the questions asked in the novel A Big Bluff And Some Green Stuff, and no doubt many a story. It would be great to think that the presence of an outside force would cause traditional enmities to be forgotten, divisions to be healed, and the world to join together to defeat the invaders.
Sadly, much of what's happened since the invisible enemy of COVID-19 began to attack our race suggests the world isn't uniting against a common enemy on a scale we'd perhaps hoped. Old divisions remain, the blame game persists. Shame. That needs to change.
At least in A Big Bluff And Some Green Stuff, former enemies do bury the hatchet. Often in the skulls of vicious (and highly visible) zombie aliens intent on destroying the human race.
But that's another story.
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