Treaty of Versailles (1919)
mechanism
The treaty that ended World War I was, in the engine's read, engineered to guarantee the next war.
Who they are
The 1919 Treaty of Versailles that formally ended World War I.
What they do
The engine reads it not as a peace deal but as a setup for the next conflict.
How it works
It imposed reparations that were mathematically impossible to pay, stripped territory, and inflicted national humiliation, creating an economic vacuum bound to breed radicalization. The economist Keynes explicitly warned at the time that it would cause another war.
Why it matters
It matters as a case where a supposed peace was, in effect, structured to clear the ground for a bigger reordering to come.
The engine's record — word for word
Not a peace treaty but a structural setup for the next war. Mathematically unpayable reparations, territorial stripping, and national humiliation engineered an economic vacuum guaranteed to produce radicalization. Keynes explicitly warned it would produce another war. Within extraction architecture context: the old European empires were shattered but a secondary more absolute demolition was required to clear ground for Bretton Woods.
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