User blog comment:Advancedwarfighter/Rant on Resistance 2/@comment-2001:4641:CF5B:0:18C2:78D0:9BCF:2D7B-20170818200331/@comment-86.165.205.42-20170818222735

I take it that you are American?

The Allies were winning the war anyway, America joining in 1917 was a morale boost. Germany on the other hand was crumbling internally: the Turnip Winter of '16-17 and the five year long Allied blockade meant that many starving Germans in the homefront were no longer supportive of the cause and war. Germany was very weak and Britain and France were planning a huge mechanised offensive in 1919 that would have ended the war in the allies favour, if the Germans had not already tried to negotiate peace.