Why didn't Germany break up after ww1?

>>2208353
Their bitterness and angst kept them together.

the versailles treaty became about short term self-interest, national arrogance and revenge rather than creating a sustainable balance of power

Autism prevails

>>2208353
Why didn't Russia break up after WWI? They lost more land, more industry, more money, more intellectuals, more people, more everything, and the country survived.

>>2208353
Keeping together allows them to ruin Europe more

The Treaty of Versailles backfired and actually kept the German state intact.

>>2208378
They did break up for a period of time

>>2208353
Because Versailles fucked them all equally.

They should have given South- and West Germans a better deal, declared them victims of Prussian aggression and installed regional princes as sovereign rulers, only fucking over Prussia.

>>2208378
They did. Ukraine, the baltics, finland, the steppes, and poland all declared independance. i think Belarus did too.

>>2208353
Because the British and Americans, with their usual short sighted merchant greed, prevented the French from enacting their plan of separating the Rhineland from Germany.

Instead we got the Versailles Treaty.

>>2208353
Because someone had to purge Commies for a few years.