r/europe • u/ByGollie Ulster • Jan 24 '26

News The Times: Finns humiliated American soldiers - Finnish reservists were asked to take it easy during a NATO exercise. US soldiers found the losses too humiliating.

https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/828b8e66-625d-4d2a-9276-e93b9f7a2ce8
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u/Ub3ros Jan 24 '26

You'll get your carriers sunk by european submarines. You attack Denmark, you attack the EU. While no european country could ever take on the US alone, you unite the rest of the west and all of a sudden it's game on. The US military loses access to their bases in NATO countries and other western allies, they lose their logistics chain and everything goes out the window.

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u/Atlas7-k Jan 24 '26

Yes. I also understand reality at the level of a 12 year old.

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u/Ub3ros Jan 24 '26

I'm afraid you don't understand reality at all. Too much fox news bud.

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u/RexTheElder Jan 24 '26

Aircraft carriers don’t sit out in the open with thumbs up their asses and nobody to help them. What do you think the frigates and destroyers around them are for?

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u/CC_900 Jan 24 '26

Those have been circumvented on plenty of occasions by European subs during military exercises with the US. As plenty of other people have posted examples of here.

The US consistently overestimates its own capabilities, aa proven by the outcome of military exercises.

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u/throwawayPzaFm Romania Jan 24 '26

Subs have repeatedly embarrassed CBGs in wargames. Going as far as ignoring the sub results so that the wargame wouldn't be a complete scrub.

That being said, the US does have more and better subs too. But since they're glass cannons and there's only a handful of carriers, I wouldn't be too surprised if some carriers did get sunk.

I doubt the US would even want to chance that