Why didn't he took France when he have the chance? Why make

Because real life isn't a fucking Paradox game, and you can't just annex an entirely different group of 40 million people in one war.

>>2656191
To be honest Paradox were the first to make it impossible to do just that in a game, adding a whole new layer of realism.

>>2656185
He didn't even want to get Alsace-Lorraine. He was convinced making an enemy out of France would be Germany's downfall.

The French declaring war on Prussia allowed him to rally other German states behind Prussia. Reason he provoked a war against France was so he could unite the German states under Prussian leadership with a war to seal the complete centralisation, taking land from France was not part of this. He already won when French declared the war, fighting the war itself and being as successful as they were was just cherry on top.

>>2656197
Hello Fredrik

>>2656198
He should have thrown one of his famous fits to the Kaiser to have a plebiscite immediately after annexation and favorably drawing out districts which would go or stay on the basis of simple majority.
He normally played both sides perfectly, I think the Metz mines are more important than normally considered.

Taking over a nation makes their people feel pretty antagonistic to you, hotshot.

>>2656185
Nothing to celebrate a victory over the French than provoking a coalition of Britain, Italy, Russia, the Netherlands, and possibly even Austria.

>>2656259
Hitler didn't have a problem with that

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>>2656349
>Hitler didn't have a problem with that

>>2656191
How come Hitler did then?

>>2656349
>Hitler didn't have a problem with that
You can't be serious

>>2656369
How come it collapsed in 4 years?

>>2656390
That was more due to the war against multiple countries with greater industrial and/or manpower capabilities than you rather than resistance in occupied territory

>>2656412
>Implying that all of Europe wouldn't jump on Prussia as soon as France was annexed and we wouldn't have a Nappy 2.0

>>2656198
And once they annexed Alsace-Lorraine the German authorities always viewed them with suspicion and never treated them like proper subjects.

No wonder Alsace-Lorraine hated Germany

>>2656185
France was the strongest military power in Europe at the time

>>2656198
>>2657684
This and this. France had been pretty indisputably the most powerful nation in Europe since at least the days of Louis XIV. Bismarck probably knew that the French would never submit to being ruled by Prussians, given that Prussia was the newest and smallest of the Great Powers and had little to nothing in common with France.

occupying a nation of hostile foreigners as your own extended colony isn't really important or desirable in order to establish your goals

>>2657061

they're just confused, they run to the arms of the french, who massacre their essence

>>2656191
if you annexed all of France in a game of Liq 2 in one war the whole world would be butthurt at you and you'd have millions of rebels

>>2659477
well that sounds like what happens in real life, see WWII

>>2656369
Bismarck was playing Vicky 2, Hitler was playing HOI4.

>>2659482

what were the french playing? dwarf fortress?

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>>2656185
The better question is why do you keep making this thread? I swear I've seen this exact thread two or three times already. Any of you who've been here a while have to have noticed it to.

>>2656185
The costs of it would have outweighed the gains as both the local population and the international community would have been outraged by it, isolating Germany/Prussia and heavily stretching its resources.