Using public opinion to stir up war-weariness among the people and thereby force the governments of various nations to sit at the negotiating table had always been a helpless measure. After all, the contradictions between the governments of Europe's great powers could not be reconciled at all. This could be seen from the punishment the Entente Powers had imposed on the Central Powers in the previous life.
Of course, public opinion also needed time to ferment, so it was impossible to immediately bring about negotiations through the European people's desire for peace. For this reason, East Africa still needed to persuade Europe's great powers at the official level.
To the governments of the various countries, East Africa uniformly laid out the harm this war had done to Europe. This was also the most basic point. In fact, by now, Europe's nations had already failed in their attempt to use war to divert internal contradictions. This was the fundamental reason East Africa was willing to undertake lobbying efforts.
As for different countries, East Africa also used different methods of persuasion. For example, when it came to France, East Africa focused its lobbying of the French government on France's population problem.
Since the Napoleonic Era, population had always been France's Achilles' heel. Before the First World War, France's total population had only just surpassed forty million, yet France alone had mobilized nearly ten million troops from the homeland, with casualties reaching as high as five million. If the war continued, France would inevitably be the first to collapse—unless Britain and the United States suddenly grew a conscience and were willing to charge at the very front.
But that was obviously impossible. Britain aside for the moment, the United States, this ally that had joined halfway through, had still mobilized only a little