Allies and Germany agree to peace after Russia drops out of WW1?

What Germany required was self-sufficiency in food. Those victories on the Eastern front were "cool", but they didn't help very much with that little detail.
 
What Germany required was self-sufficiency in food. Those victories on the Eastern front were "cool", but they didn't help very much with that little detail.

Organizing the east would take time, and time was one thing Germany did not have with the US army's 4 million troops on the way. US intervention was absolutely decisive. No US intervention, and Germany could have focused more on taking out the other fronts (Italy, Greece) and organizing supply from captured territories in the east.
 
That's from Wiki. Here,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brusilov_Offensive


Russian casualties were considerable, numbering up to 1.5 million. The Brusilov Offensive is listed among the most lethal battles in world history.

The early part of the offensive was generally successful, but Brusilov pressed on far beyond the point where he should have stopped, and his casualties mounted heavily, and the Russian army simply was too brittle by that point for such rough handling. The Russians should have reverted to the defensive by mid or late July.



Norman Stone, The Eastern Front, mentions this as happening late in the Brusilov Offensive.




Any sane Russian policy in 1914 would not have gone to war over Serbian terrorists in the first place. Of all Russia's decisions in the last 500 years, the one for war in 1914 had to be the most incompetent one.

Well, Wikipedia is a source of often dubious. I've also read the article from the Russian wiki about 1 million of losses at Verdun, and it turned out it together with the wounded, while the number of dead on both sides - 480000.
The fact that the loss of the imperial army was considered carefully, it is not the Red Army during the Second World War, in which the division disappeared without a trace, and the total bill died is still unknown, or 27 million, or 37.

And how he took the numbers, that's the question. If a German archive, the overstatement of enemy losses in the reports of the overall problem.

Russia is not defending terrorists but its allies - Serbia. In addition, mobilized the Austrian army at the borders of Russia calls for an adequate response. Russia was trying to postpone the war. But who gave attempt on the Archduke also a question. Killers those were Serbs, but has yet to prove the involvement of the Serbian government in the assassination. But Germany this attack was very beneficial as Franz Joseph was set up anti-German and played for the normalization of relations with Russia and the provision of the Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian equal rights with the Germans and Hungarians. And he began to try on the crown too provocatively. The whole story of the attempt rather strange: the driver turned the wrong street, then realized that was lost. Drove straight to the terrorist and the car began to roll out.
 
The Germans think they are winning and their demands for peace seem worse to the Allies than fighting on.

Of all reasons given, this is the principal problem. Had Germany accompanied its 1918 offensive (which at first seemed successful) with a proposal to negotiate an armistice and eventual peace based largely on a return to prewar borders in the west, including restoration of Belgium, together with pledges to consider a naval treaty to accomodate British concerns about naval supremacy and US concerns about unrestricted submarive warfare, the allies might agree to some significant adjustments in Germany's favor in the east, where it was obvious Germany had already won. Problem is, few Germans would accept a peace agreement that appeared to be giving away the fruits of "victory" I can't see the Germans anywhere close to being so reasonable unless you gave them a time machine.
 
Well, Wikipedia is a source of often dubious. I've also read the article from the Russian wiki about 1 million of losses at Verdun, and it turned out it together with the wounded, while the number of dead on both sides - 480000.

The Russians lost around 1.5 million men during the Brusilov Offensive. It started off well, but turned into a meat grinder when Brusilov continued despite mounting casualties. It was the decisive battle of the Eastern Front, the campaign that wrecked Russia's chances.
 
Is there any chance of that happening? I mean Russia was the reason France joined in the first place and this is before the US joined the war and the casualties are horrific why doesn't everyone just agree to end the war are they just that stubborn?

You'd have to prevent the USA from entering the war, something that could be achieved if Germany never sent that idiotic Zimmermann telegram. The US would be pro-Entente (not pro-Allied because the Allies were the name for the WW 2 alliance; here it would be referring to the Triple Alliance, i.e, the Central Powers).

Another way to get here is if Russia collapses into revolution sooner. Germany really turned on the heat when Russia was already in turmoil in 1917 by building the Hindenburg Line on the western front, withdrawing to it and then sending the freed up divisions eastward. If the Germans had done so in 1915 (in which case it might be the Falkenhayn Line), Russia collapses sooner, leaving the war a year early perhaps. A less tired Austria-Hungary with German assistance can then knock out Italy, leaving only France and Britain to deal with. The Entente will likely consider some kind of negotiated peace: Germany keeping its TTL's Brest-Litovsk gains while losing her colonies would be a fair trade off (even if France fell, there is no prospect of regaining German colonies because the Royal Navy is bigger).
 
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