Why didn't Prussia take advantage of the Hungarian revolution and attack Austria? Were they stupid?

19th Century Geopolitics worked like this. European Powers would check with the other Great Powers and negotiate with them to get approval for a certain action. For example Russia tried to take over the Ottoman Empire and just march down to free all of the Balkans and the Middle Eastern Christians. The Anglo FREAKED out, because that would create a huge imbalance and Chaos. So they tell them "okay, we approve of you getting this, this and that, but nothing more than that" basically. So you would win at least something in the war, but you would lose massively and start a war against the other Great Powers, if you wanted to push for more than that. 



If Prussia would have shown any ambition to create a Großgermanium, than I am pretty sure every other power would have intervened to stop them. The only reason Prussia managed to unite Germany in our timeline so smoothly was the gigabrain-tier diplomatic strategy of Bismarck. Bismarck also threatened to jump out of a window, if Wilhelm tried to annex Austria from the Habsburg Empire.

>Bismarck also threatened to jump out of a window, if Wilhelm tried to annex Austria from the Habsburg Empire.

Source? First time I've heard this.

>source source source?

shut up, take it or leave it

As a Großgermanium enthusiast this is very important information to me. Don't make big claims if you can't back them up.

get out of my thread

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Prague_(1866)

>At first, Wilhelm I had wanted to push on to Vienna and annex Austria but Bismarck stopped him and even threatened to resign and more drastically to hurl himself out of the fourth-story window of Nikolsburg Castle.

>Taylor, A.J.P. (1988). Bismarck: The Man and the Statesman. Hamish Hamilton. pp. 87–88. ISBN 0-241-11565-5.

>>14902747 (OP)

Gee I wonder what happened in 1848 in the Kingdom of Prussia that bound their forces as well as their attention.

>>14902747 (OP)

Why did Russia invade Hungary to put down the revolution, were they stupid?



We are talking about people who refused annexing the entirety of Germany for literally free because they didn't want to pick up a crown from the gutter. They obviously valued their own internal unchecked power over having to share power in more powerful states. The only person who was willing to make that deal was the King of Sardinia who made some vague promises that he'd be a constitutional monarch of a united Italy,

Now that you remind me Prussia did go to war with Denmark over Schleswig-Holstein and lost somehow.

The First Schleswig War was a coalition effort containing a few of the northern states (among them Prussia) of the German Confederation against the Kingdom of Denmark over the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein. Militarily speaking the german states achieved many victories of ther danes on land but were unable to achieve a greater breakthrough and the german states were never able to seriously challange Denmark on the sea. 

Due to international pressure from the UK, France and Russia the German Confederation ceased to support the rebels of Schleswig and Holstein, who were in turn unable to resist Denmark.

This reads like ChatGPT but the capitalisation isn't right. Your typing style needs work.

Juqqt

>>14902747 (OP)

Austria's dissolution would've empowered Russia, wasn't worth it.

Why did Russia invade Hungary to reform Austria then?
