Europe is split between Russia and America. North America and the islands (Greenland, Iceland, Great Britain, Ireland, Faroes, Canaries, Azores, *et cetera) go to America. Central and Eastern Europe go to Moscow. France, being a nuclear state, is left as a sovereign buffer state; maybe Iberia, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy (basically, a rump of the First French Empire), go under their umbrella.
And the us isn’t well positioned to hold land. The navy and Air Force can only destroy. Not that many grunts in the states, and they might be busy holding it together in such a scenario. And if they try to eject the women and undesirables from the us forces they’ll have significant gaps to fill. Enlisted troops don’t get paid squat to start.
Are the U.K.'s nukes on an independent platform?
Germany's military has no ranged capability to speak of--not in the same league.
> Lots of military tradition there, and guns, jeeps and trucks don’t take much to make in quantity
They do take time. If, as I suspect, we're at the precipice of the normalisation of tacitcal nukes, I don't think it would be too difficult to suppress. Or maybe it would! (I'd hope it would.) Either way, stupid aftermath doesn't seem to figure into the calculus of either Putin or Trump.
Btw, I'm not making odds for a deal that works. Just a deal that happens. Germany didn't keep anything from M-R.
> the us isn’t well positioned to hold land. The navy and Air Force can only destroy.
Holding Canada, Iceland, Greenland and--at arms length, perhaps as a territory, perhaps as a sovereign nation in name only--the U.K. and Ireland wouldn't take a lot of manpower or coercing.
Maybe they can share the Nobel Peace Prize that the U.S. president so covets.
You don't know us if you think that.
Yes.
Meanwhile Gabbard could not be doing a better job of insuring that foreign influence campaigns and disinformation are left utterly unchecked.
These people seem like they are gunning against the allied powers, in every way.
jleyank•4mo ago
bell-cot•4mo ago
Vs. buying highly the complex manufactured goods locally, at scale, requires a high-functioning weapons industry. And even if you have the will and the skill to set that up - there's still quite a lead time.