My thought with the “1.1*tit for tat” is simply it makes the aggressor always come out in a losing position for initiating. My thought is they can see the diverging series and know the eventual outcome and either choose to stop or not. But you are possibly right, maybe 0.9 * (tit for tat) is a better policy to pre-commit to.
And yeah, reading the rest of your argument: you’re right, no winners. The aggressor isn’t really going to feel they came out ‘ahead’ dealing with the disaster from losing a slightly worse city than the one they killed from the enemy. For that matter, recent events show that popular opinion of other nations is relevant. The country with slightly more damage who was not the aggressor may enjoy far more foreign aid, which it’s going to need for it’s citizens to survive.
My thought with the “1.1*tit for tat” is simply it makes the aggressor always come out in a losing position for initiating. My thought is they can see the diverging series and know the eventual outcome and either choose to stop or not. But you are possibly right, maybe 0.9 * (tit for tat) is a better policy to pre-commit to.
And yeah, reading the rest of your argument: you’re right, no winners. The aggressor isn’t really going to feel they came out ‘ahead’ dealing with the disaster from losing a slightly worse city than the one they killed from the enemy. For that matter, recent events show that popular opinion of other nations is relevant. The country with slightly more damage who was not the aggressor may enjoy far more foreign aid, which it’s going to need for it’s citizens to survive.