Hungary makes a separate peace?

Is there any way for Hungary to break out of AH and sign a separate more favorable peace sparing it from losing so much territory?
 
Is there any way for Hungary to break out of AH and sign a separate more favorable peace sparing it from losing so much territory?
Nope. Hungary, even on its own, was considered as much of a beligerent as the other Central Powers. You're more likely to have a succesful Sixtus Affair (i.e. not likely at all) in which the entire AH signs a separate peace.

Plus, Hungarian secession is nigh-impossible during the war (and arguably at all unless the Austrians forces their hands). The majority of the Hungarian political elite are all too aware of the interdependence between Austria and Hungary; secession would destroy the political situation that they cultivated and profited from for so long, which they couldn't survive without.
 
Nope. Hungary, even on its own, was considered as much of a beligerent as the other Central Powers. You're more likely to have a succesful Sixtus Affair (i.e. not likely at all) in which the entire AH signs a separate peace.

Plus, Hungarian secession is nigh-impossible during the war (and arguably at all unless the Austrians forces their hands). The majority of the Hungarian political elite are all too aware of the interdependence between Austria and Hungary; secession would destroy the political situation that they cultivated and profited from for so long, which they couldn't survive without.

Agree. The point that is implicit in the above is that, even if Hungary somehow could manage to handle an uprising, a separation from Austria, and a pushing out of Austrian troops (a tall order), then it would be faced with uprisings of its own minorities, Romanians, Croatians, Slovakians and Whatnotians. It simply can't face all of this; it would result in a civil war of everyone against everyone, while WWI enemies are pushing at the borders. It's possible that eventually what would emerge would be a smaller Hungary.
 
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