Could Europe Defeat America in an All-Out War? (globalaffairsexplained.com)

I think the large puddle separating the two will keep troops from each others soil. If you’re blowing the shit out of people, nobody wins. Economically, which group of people is better placed to accept (severe) pain? The US has no practice receiving pain and might react poorly to its appearance.

Europe, sadly, knows all about pain.

> "Europe could probably defeat the US in a war"

USA's military budget is much higher than the sum of all other nations military budgets while it includes only 5% of world's population.

Roughly near $900 Billions versus $500 Billions Dollars in 2023.

https://www.nationalpriorities.org/blog/2023/05/04/us-still-...

https://www.pgpf.org/article/the-united-states-spends-more-o...

Both sides would suffer terrible losses. Hopefully that would override any sense of "winning'.

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I don’t know but the biggest winner in that conflict would be Russia.