>>19337
And ofc the high politics didn't entirely depend on the leading figures personal preferences and feelings. It was all about interests. Hungary was a special case.
Every aspect of Hungary - it's economy, politics, military, strategy, objectives etc - was influenced by the 2 years that followed WWI and culminated in Trianon. Right after the war the revolution helped liberals and social democrats into power, they disbanded the army which allowed the neighbours' troops to march into Hungary, then let the communist seize the power who not just initiated the "red terror" against their fellow countrymen but failed to repulse the foreign invaders this wasn't really their fault in that situation noone could do much.
Then basically the Entente put Horthy into power by putting the communists into flight so he and his army of officers could seize the power and him and his commissioned government was legit enough for the Entente to sit down with them in the Grand Trianon chateau and make them sign the peace dictate to finalize the end of the war.
It wasn't just territorial and population loss, the treaty destroyed the economy (with the exception of Budapest all industral centers were lost and with them almost all resources as well) and presented military restrictions: no conscription only voluntary service, 35 000 soldiers max, no general staff, no army or corp level units, 525 machine gun, 140 mortar, 105 artillery piece tops, no armoured vehicles, no planes, no manufacturing ships and planes.
They created the Little Entente to prevent the revenge Hungary would have inevitably done with her unstoppable force described above. This also isolated the country diplomatically. Maybe Austria left as a possibility but the most minor cooperation was suspected as a restoration of the Habsburg dynasty, Poland had it's own problems with her newly formed country, Germany was a chaos, Italy was still an enemy, just liek France and England. Soviet-Russia was the devil himself, every other country was too far or too insignificant or both. Wat nou?

Will be continued.