And that's an extremely dangerous assumption. You don't need to dive deep into history for good examples of the opposite. And if you dive deeper, you will find

And that's an extremely dangerous assumption. You don't need to dive deep into history for good examples of the opposite. And if you dive deeper, you will find examples far more suicidal disparities in between warring factions. Second, you do not count in a possibility of your opponent not even trying to win. If wars were fought by rational people, we would've long had math PhDs for generals.