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The EU and other NATO countries would never attack the US, unless it was in retaliation over the US attacking them first - and even then, it’d have to be a pretty insane situation for the EU to go further than conducting an area-denial strategy on and around their territory. The one instance I could see this being done is in response to the US outright nuking major EU cities; as insane as things are, I really don’t think that’s even a remote possibility at this point.
If the US strikes any NATO member, it's an automatic declaration of war against the aggressor state, which in this case would be the US, under Article 5 of the NATO treaty.
If it doesn't result in an automatic declaration, that means NATO has failed, and isn't worth the paper it's written on. It's a mutual defense treaty.
You say that, but wait until some turd from Europe insults Mr. Bigballs' gaming ability...
lol seriously what are you talking about
The DOGE kids got access to a network that deals with our nuclear weapons. One of them goes by the handle "Bigballs" online.
I know that. But I have serious difficulty believing that the entire chain of command would listen to that dipshit if he decided to tweet at Rammstein “lmao nuke Berlin” or something like that. None of our triad is set up to have 0-100 button-press nuke launches executed by a single person, and that’s by design.