The French Republic did not take the news of their last major ally withdrawing from the war very well… The British Empire, had agreed to enter the war on the side of the French as a show of strength and solidarity against an increasingly powerful German Reich.
This was the result of past enemies and formal alliances being built by the Germans with powerful states. As well as the Germans securing military agreements and trade with the Empire of Japan at the exclusion of the British Empire.
After a series of disastrous pushes against the front lines of Belgium, and Elsass-Lothringen, as a well as the Battle of Ypres which had resulted in the deaths of a million men in total, by the time disease and rot sank deep into the flesh, the death toll which the British and French had suffered was far greater than in Bruno's past life.