Why was Germany unable to force a favorable peace to WWI?

>>2583500
Because the modern, industrialized war was super-expensive and bloody. No government wanted to go back home with a peace treaty that they couldn't sell to their people as being worth dumping millions of young men and god knows how much money into; and as the costs of the war rose, the necessity of total victory for purely domestic reasons rose with it.

>>2583500
Jesus, how tall is that guy? Looks very short compared to the rifle at his side

Because they lost the war and were in a catastrophic military situation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Battle_of_the_Marne

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Amiens_(1918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Days_Offensive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Vittorio_Veneto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Serbia,_Albania_and_Montenegro_(1918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardar_Offensive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Megiddo_(1918)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Caucasus_expedition

Their military situation had collapsed completely over summer 1918 and Germany and its allies were on the retreat on all fronts.

This is probably a crypto-/pol/ thread meant to blame Jews so we need to nip the myth they weren't losing the war catastrophically until the Spartacist Revolt in the bud.

>>2583500
The other 3 central powers had already collapsed and America was literally landing 10,000 soldiers in Western Europe every day.

Germany had no bargaining power.

Eating turnips and sawdust in 1918

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>>2583500

Couldn't figure out how tanks work

>>2583500
Because they kept demanding blatantly unacceptable concessions despite themselves being the aggressors and having fewer resources than their enemies. Basically they gave their enemies no real reason to concede.

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>>2583599
>This is probably a crypto-/pol/ thread meant to blame Jews so we need to nip the myth they weren't losing the war catastrophically until the Spartacist Revolt in the bud.

>we

>>2584563
Tanks were pretty worthless in WW1. The problem with the German defence was not that their tactics weren't working out, the problem was that they were out of resources to keep up their defence. If you had handed Germany resources they could have kept the enemy at bay, tanks or not.

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>>2584615
>Tanks were pretty worthless in WW1
stop posting

>>2584668
>implying that small unit tactics, defense in depth, logistical superiority and combined arms weren't much more effective than HURRR TONKS
>implying that this wasn't proven doubly true in the 2nd world war.

>>2583500
Jews, obviously.

>>2583553
They never learn, do they?

>>2584615
>if they germans were able to magick supplies and materials into existence from nothingthey would've won
I'd be embarrassed for the culture that couldn't.

>>2583500
Because Kaiserschlacht failed
Ludendorff was a hack who wasn't willing to lose a bit of pride to save a couple hundred thousand lives too.

>>2584676

>tanks enter the war
>war ends

really jingles my pringle

>>2584699
>tanks first used in the somme
>takes two years for them to end the war

really activates my almonds too anon

>>2583500
They couldn't do so in 1918 because they were losing horribly.

The better question would be why couldn't they do so during the Winter of 1917, the answer is basically what >>2583543 said. There was also the fact that even when Germany was winning tactically, they could never really win strategically.