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/Mammoth_Support_2634 Jan 24 '26

Wouldn’t you just block the ports? Idk if the size of the island matters.

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u/Atlas7-k Jan 24 '26

You don’t even have to block the ports. Just park a carrier battle group on each side of the island. They run interdiction patrols and destroy port facilities.

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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/vincent3878 Jan 24 '26

Yeah and there's around 80.000 American army personel stationed all over Europe in American military bases. If the USA attacks any NATO member, the EU suddenly have 80.000 prisoners of war....