If you don't search for your opponent, how can you tell your people what benefits you have gained from this war? The people are bitter and tired, and many people have sacrificed their loved ones. If the government can't compensate them, who will fight for you next time? How to compensate? Can't the government pay for it itself? Germany was defeated, and Germany paid for it!

The real problem of Versailles came after the war. In order to make Germany solvent, Britain and France had to lend Germany money to fatten German chickens so that they could lay eggs. However, Germany got the money and paid off its debts in a clever way-quantitative easing, that is, printing more money. The German mark once depreciated tens of thousands of times in a short period of time, basically competing with the golden certificate. The reparations obtained by Britain and France (calculated by Deutsche Mark) became waste paper, and Germany's war capability was re-cultivated.