Sorry, I shouldn't have ended on that snark. What I meant was the impression I got was that the bad guys wanted to end the isolationism so their country could share its technology (like the abovementioned cure for cancer) with the world and learn from the world as well. Some people see that as opening a door for colonization, but IMO when you have literal live-saving technology that you're keeping to yourselves, being isolationist rather than "potentially future colonialist via slippery slope" is not a good guy move.