The Entente Alone: A different conclusin to WWI

Good good. As somebody who has to study medical science, i happen to know that copious quantities of salt are needed to cure wankage of such outstanding proportions.

*nods sagely and strokes beard*

In future, I shall direct all enquiries of a medicinal nature to you Good Sir :D
 
In future, I shall direct all enquiries of a medicinal nature to you Good Sir :D


Well, I'm actually training to be a vet, but for the first two years, we spend about two thirds of the time with med students :mad:

Then again, i presume the salt cure would work for any goats, horses or even bearded dragons :)eek:) that engage in such ameriwankery
 
Would the peace settlement really change all that much without Wilson's 14 points?

I don't see the Hapsburgs' being able to keep most of their territory. They will certainly lose most of Tyrol to the Italians, and Hungary will get cut up pretty bad by the Romanians, the Serbians, and Czechoslovaks. I think Czechoslovakia is probably going to come out independent. So maybe Austria-Croatia-Hungary maintains itself as a Hapsburg Federation, remaining together in order to pool their strength. Bosnia goes to Serbia and instead of Yugoslavia there is just straight Greater Serbia- or perhaps the Bulgarians get really hammered badly and Bulgaria-Macedonia-Serbia-Bosnia ends up as "Yugoslavia", though Greece may feel vaguely threatened by that combination.

If you keep Croatia in with Austria and Hungary then you would also give reason to give Italy the Croatian coast, and then perhaps with more of the war-aims having been achieved the Italians don't have the same quick leap towards fascism.

On the German's launching the '18 offensives if the United States didn't enter the war. I am of the opinion that the German High Command was convinced that the strength they were getting from the East would be enough to deliver the killing blow to the Entente. Therefore, I believe the offensives would have been carried out in much the same manner, and that the outcome would have been much the same. The simple fact is that the Germans did not have the logistical capability of capturing Paris at this point (at their greatest advance OTL they were within 75 km, close, but close only counts with horse shoes and hand grenades and this is neither).
Once the Germans have spent their Eastern strength in the '18 offensives, then the game is pretty much up, and their just waiting for the either Entente victories or domestic defeats to end the war.

With the Entente victory, my real curiosity lies in how people think an America-less Versailles would go. What would change without the idealistic Americans at the table?
 
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