Someone had to bear responsibility for the First World War. In the previous life, it had been the Central Powers who paid the price: Germany was saddled with enormous war reparations, the Austro-Hungarian Empire collapsed, the Ottoman Empire collapsed, and Bulgaria ceded territory and paid indemnities...
This was not an outcome East Africa wished to see, but at present, the Central Powers' hopes of winning quickly were also quite slim. Just like the Russia-Ukraine war in the previous life, the First World War had now thoroughly become a war of attrition. It could not end at once merely because a single country joined.
The key issue was still the United States. Unless East Africa possessed the ability to defeat the United States swiftly after entering the war, the conflict between the Central Powers and the Entente Powers could not end in a short time. East Africa had no desire to fight a war that dragged on for years.
But if an armistice could now be brought about, the outcome would be different. Europe could continue maintaining its fragile balance, East Africa would not need to shoulder the risks of war, and America's investments would go down the drain.
East Africa was different from the United States. America had poured immense financial resources into Europe, especially through loans, indiscriminately lending to anything and everything. East Africa, though it had also earned quite a bit from Europe, had used a large portion of it to repay the enormous loans from before the war. Only after 1916 did it truly begin profiting from trade with Europe.
Therefore, if the Central Powers and Entente Powers ceased fighting at this time, both sides would be losers, which was instead most beneficial to East Africa. At the same time, the East African government had also considered