Are Aliens causing you anxiety?

I think the balance of probabilities is that we can expect total indifference to our interests and values at best.

I do have a rationale but it's not easy to put in a small, un-boring paragraph.

The reason we bothered with tools is because we weren't happy just sitting in a cold cave and rolling the dice with the grim reaper every winter. It's that very same impulse that leads to conflict. We share it with all animals (certainly all carnivores). Rabbits will likely never develop tools so long as there is a strand of grass in front of them. It would never occur to them that they could 'get all the girls' by hogging all the grass in a structure and paying gaurds.

In every alien invasion film ever made it's always the crazy conspiracy theorist living in a cabin in the woods and trying to warn the world who turns out to be right.
Dubs is our incoherent, tinfoil hat wearing nut job so we should really believe everything he ever says.

I can wander wherever my imagination takes me. The point about telekinesis or telepathic control is that we do not know if they are possible but who would have thought echo location possible hundreds of years ago. Controlling other organisms by chemicals is very much a possibility and a reality and who knows if a big blob like a whale could release an array of chemicals to make other groups do specific tasks for it. Once an organism goes down that route then evolution will hone and temper the ability. Also other organisms may find it advantageous in an evolutionary way to allow themselves to be so used.

Currently yes but if chemical release can instil a reaction in others then goodness knows what else is possible.

The point being that if an intelligent whale could manipulate an unintelligent ape then the opposable thumb would be put to the use of the whale not the ape. That manipulation could be by any of the methods we already know about such as chemical or by any method not yet dreampt about in our philosophies.

The animal the whale has control over does not need to be intelligent it just needs to be manipulated. It is only a tool, no different to a wheelbarrow or a kitchen mixer. In fact evolution may make the animal totally subservient as a means of survival in a sort of symbiotic relationship.
If there is some advantage to a whale becoming ever more able to control other creatures then it is almost certain evolution will progress to that end. Just as if there was no problem with food supply and there was an advantage for mice to be bigger then very soon they would become the size of elephants.