So heavily inspired by the Earlier Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Effects on Western Front? thread from years back.
Let's just handwave it and say that the Bolsheviks just except the initial, less harsh peace proposals and the war in the East more or less ends in late December of 1917.
Assume the early end of formal hostilities with Russia is actually enough to get a breakthrough on the Western Front and force France to capitulate sometime in 1918.
So what does the peace and aftermath of the war likely look like? What are the implications for an utterly exhausted Imperial Germany that "won" the war but who's expansion into Eastern Europe is very minimal compared to what it could have been and who's hegemony over Europe is questionable at best? What up the similarly exhausted Austro-Hungary and Ottoman Empire? What of a Soviet Union that's likely going to face a far shorter and less devastating Civil War?
And of course what of France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and United States?
Let's just handwave it and say that the Bolsheviks just except the initial, less harsh peace proposals and the war in the East more or less ends in late December of 1917.
Assume the early end of formal hostilities with Russia is actually enough to get a breakthrough on the Western Front and force France to capitulate sometime in 1918.
So what does the peace and aftermath of the war likely look like? What are the implications for an utterly exhausted Imperial Germany that "won" the war but who's expansion into Eastern Europe is very minimal compared to what it could have been and who's hegemony over Europe is questionable at best? What up the similarly exhausted Austro-Hungary and Ottoman Empire? What of a Soviet Union that's likely going to face a far shorter and less devastating Civil War?
And of course what of France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and United States?