However, no matter how one looks at it, this is a severe crisis for the Austro-Hungarian Empire. If not handled properly, this multi-national and multi-regional country may well disintegrate.
Almost at the same time, the Foreign Affairs Departments of the Allies all had a unified goal – to establish contact with the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Hungarian Kingdom Government.
Germany, too, was urgently contacting its ally, as they did not want to see their only ally withdraw from the battlefield, which would mean that Germany would have no chance of victory.
If the Austro-Hungarian Empire remained in the war, at least it could hold back more than a million Allied troops for Germany.
But if the Austro-Hungarian Empire withdrew from the war, Germany would face a siege by all the Allies. The current total number of Allied troops is more than 10 million, and with the United States joining the war, this number is still growing.