Okay, yes. The transfer of power was smooth. Reactions... not. Though as usual Ill note the Munich Soviet Republic gets way too much credit. Now the Kapp Putsch, that was much more serious. But... a state of continous unrest isnt yet "practcialyl no government". Only when government fall left and right and the constitution is violated or abused (mid-20s with hyperinflation and Reichswehr interventions in Thuringia and Saxony and early 30s with the presidential decree rule) you could really say that...
What!?
The late-Weimar government was a mess, yes; but it was a government. A nasty, authoritarian, constitution-trampling government rushing from State of Emergency to State of Emergency, but a government. Early-Weimar was not.
More to the point of this thread, if the Second Reich tries to go on fighting into 1919 and falls apart like Weimar did over the winter of 1918-9 - and I see no reason to doubt that it would - the Allies win by default. They will in all likelihood get that triumphal march under the Brandenburg Gate they always wanted because they'll be no one left to stop them. After
Michael - probably for quite a long while before that, but definitely after
Michael - Germany has lost; they just don't know it yet. There's no possible way the war could have gone on for more than four years because WWI chewed up countries and spat them out. Russia hit the wall in 1917; AH hit it in late 1918; and Germany was going to hit it in 1919. The Allies just lucked out in that they had Britain and the blockade, which was able to force Germany down faster than France was going.