The goal should be to find an answer!
What is missing is common sense communication.
What they are doing is being threatening with each other hoping to scare the other while trying to look confident, strong, and not scaring themselves with their tough talk. This is a waste of time.
Both sides want this to end peacefully, but they are reacting so that it will fail and more trouble will come, because their wild imaginations coupled with anxiety fears that will lead them to the outcome that they both fear.