WW1: Would Britain fight on alone?

Would the British Fight on?

  • Yes, and would be prepared to fight alone for years

    Votes: 8 8.4%
  • Yes, at least until the 1920 US election to see if the US would enter

    Votes: 10 10.5%
  • Britain would make peace if Belgium restored, fight on otherwise

    Votes: 27 28.4%
  • Britain seeks short term peace, Napoleonic Wars 2.0

    Votes: 35 36.8%
  • No they would not keep fighting

    Votes: 30 31.6%

  • Total voters
    95
If Germany is smart, peace with Britain should be possible. Don't go overboard annexing parts of France, get out of Belgium, don't demand anything from Britain (like repartations or British colonies) and it shpuld be possible. Basicly I would say that Belgium is the price for peace with Britain. They officialy went to war over Belgium, so leave Belgium and Britain can even try to spindoctor the war into a win.
Assuming the east and west have fallen Britain might not have a choice. Once its continental allies have fallen there's no chance for the British to win the war. Simply put, a ceasefire would be inevitable by that point.
 
It depends on the peace deal. Any peace that is good enough for France should be good enough for Britain.If France keeps on fighting, even a guerilla war with token resistance or a tactical retreat to the out most corner like Belgium did, they would fight on alongside the Free French. If for whatever reason the front simply collapses and France rolls over dead like in 1940, they would retreat across the channel like in 1940 and prepare for the Battle of Britain to fo off prematurely.
 
What happens if Germany doesn't accept British terms? The British are over a barrel and the Germans know it and also know or suspect that the British will be trouble in the peace. So the Germans might decide to keep up the sea and air war and advance in the mid east, a much easier task than the vast eastern and western fronts, to really press their advantage.

What does Britain do then?
 
What happens if Germany doesn't accept British terms? The British are over a barrel and the Germans know it and also know or suspect that the British will be trouble in the peace. So the Germans might decide to keep up the sea and air war and advance in the mid east, a much easier task than the vast eastern and western fronts, to really press their advantage.

What does Britain do then?
A ceasefire is still inevitable, the war just takes longer and is viewed more negatively by the people of Britain. Once Britain does surrender the peace terms could be more harsh than the original plans due to the fact that the British would be to blame for carrying out the war for at least several more months.
 
What happens if Germany doesn't accept British terms? The British are over a barrel and the Germans know it and also know or suspect that the British will be trouble in the peace. So the Germans might decide to keep up the sea and air war and advance in the mid east, a much easier task than the vast eastern and western fronts, to really press their advantage.

An air war is not technically possible beyond minor harassment raids. An advance in the Middle East does not threaten India. The Germans would need to move the High Seas Fleet to France and then coordinate between the surface and submarine forces to cut the SLOC and force peace terms. Possible. The British presumably would want to make peace with Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, and the Ottoman Empire and get the USA involved in the war in Europe, on the argument that a hegemonic Germany is a threat to US security too. Only if that card were not in the deck, or if the HSF cuts the SLOC, do the British throw in the towel.
 
Mutual exhaustion at that point. Britain will rule the waves while Germany reigns on land. Britain would be forced to cede to German hegemony on the continent. Things spiral from there.
 
What happens if Germany doesn't accept British terms? The British are over a barrel and the Germans know it and also know or suspect that the British will be trouble in the peace. So the Germans might decide to keep up the sea and air war and advance in the mid east, a much easier task than the vast eastern and western fronts, to really press their advantage.

What does Britain do then?
Well historically 1918 saw significant anti-war activity, including several mutinies, so I suspect that rather quickly the UK government see sense. The rumours that the Germans are coopering with Sinn Féin would help (assuming that events in Ireland have moved along as OTL [1916 Rising, conscription Crisis, German Plot, Sinn Féin election landslide]).
 
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