[cmroanirgo]

Perhaps rather than assuming that the other should lower their weapons first, it might be more prudent to lower your own first.

[Hayvok]

This approach was tried by Britain and France in the 1920s and 30s. Didn’t end well.

[hoseja]

Works great statistically if you don't much care for your own particular continued survival.

[DiggyJohnson]

This is the opinion of an individual or state who has not fully reckoned with existential threats.