PC: Can WWI end in late 1916?

IOTL the Central Powers made a peace gesture to the Allies in December 1916 that was quickly refused. US President Wilson had made efforts to end the war, forming a "League of Peace", of which the US would be a part.

I'm wondering if it's possible to get WWI to end in late 1916-early 1917 without one side being defeated. At the moment, I doubt it - all the sides are too invested to throw in the towel just yet.
 

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I'm wondering if it's possible to get WWI to end in late 1916-early 1917 without one side being defeated. At the moment, I doubt it - all the sides are too invested to throw in the towel just yet.
It was a problem IOTL - nobody among politicians grasped yet the implication of widely used machine guns and consequently horrors of positional warfare. You need one more machine-guns stalemated war just before WWI for politicians to consider early peace.
 
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