How does citing this exception to your geopolitics as therapy problem promote escalation?

whatever they do to others, can be done to them"— Actually, the Germans who levelled the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 and the rest of Warsaw in August-October 1944 knew that the Jews and the Poles could not do to them what the genocidal Germans were doing to their victims. Same for the Japanese who murdered 300000 Chinese in Nanjing and engaged in beheading contests later publicized in Japanese newspapers. For de-escalation to work there must be symmetry of power. In human conflict between irreconcilable opposites in which only one side has a future there is no de-escalation therapy solution, rendering this writer's customer service skill set useless. Only narcissistic hubris would induce anyone to believe in possession of a universal joint of geopolitical conflict resolution.