Except where the lucky win, or the most ruthless actually suck at winning wars (Bret Devereaux has some interesting observations here, and a study of the various "unbeatable" and of course ruthless empires may also be educational), or where various species cooperate in various ways, or where nobody cries when Mr. Ruthless mutters "rosebud" then dies. "Well, it couldn't have happened to a better chap", said the butler.
Cooperation and Competition are typically temporal periods but only one is extractive irrespective of externalities where cooperation can be mutual but with devastating externalities (ecological collapse)
So unfortunately it’s insufficient to simply be cooperative and the fact that macro level cooperation appears to be rare in the universe
Further, the existing examples of mutual cooperative organizations are so rare as to be non-existent. Humans seem to prefer (or are biologically limited to preferring) competition based social and economic structures.
