Don't ever give a kalashnikovs to monkeys. It would be very funny, I know, but what if they chase you down to hell?
Every civilization should have evolved from basic forms of lifes, and competition is the essential way to push evolution forward, those. Those aliens should be smart enough to not raise our technological level up to where we could pose a threat.
Someone above has mentioned a "proxy war strategy". I likedlike that idea.
