Message from @Lucienne d'Anwyl
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it was prussia
their main rival for control of germany
whom they lost to
and hated
and fought many wars with
very recent wars
and were only in an alliance with because they lost their friendship with russia and had a shiton of domestic problems
Kek misleading
Prussia fought wars with austria because they both sought influence over german states in region
Because of german cultural ties
prussia also fought austria to dismember austria
and eat its land
It's like saying Roman's hated rome because of civil wars
which it did
austrians hated prussia because they were a rival and major war enemy
Yes because germany thought of itself as the center for german people
You seem to think because germans overall had a cultural and increasingly national identity
That it manifested the same way
im saying that they were two countries with a centuries long hatred of each other
The austrians by all standards were and in many ways still are german
You keep inferring hatred
in the same way the french hated the prusians
after 1873
Austrian people were overwhelmingly germanic culturally
which unsurprisingly didnt magically stop them from fighting other german countries
They had far more in common with germany than anyone else. You keep insinuating political differences between the two power centers of Prussia and austria
As somehow being germans deeply hating other germans
Something clearly not the case
they hated the country of prussia lol
they didnt hate the concept of germany
just their political rival
God this is exhausting watching you flounder trying to make a point.
what is exhausting is you trying to pretend austria and germany were buddies
with their very long history of conflict in recent history
and austria's greater friendly ties with other major countries around them
Because of power contests. You inferred the people hated each other
Something that wasn't the case
As again austrians were culturally german
Hence why they had incredibly strong ties to germany
which is why they were better buddies with russia than they ever were with prussia?
for most of their recent history