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Not the guy you’re responding to, but if you were stationed there you would have known how often supply flights come in and out of say Rammstein AB. It’s a small city, it can’t survive without the USAF mad logistics.
I don’t know if those bases would be attacked, they would be forced to surrender and GTFO their host country, with a bunch of the heavy hardware probably confiscated.
The moment the US attacks any EU nation in this trojan horse style, they would instantly have EU close its airspace, and declare war on US.
Not saying the yanks won’t be able to make a bit of a dent, and there would be chaos, but the USA would be giving up significant EU continental control for an attack that is doomed before it starts, and it would now have EU and China potentially as a coalition against it.
Not to mention Japan, UAE, Saudi Arabia and a bunch of other places us USAF forward bases might be putting them on notice.
Yes they have overwhelming airforce and navy, but not if you think about the key principle of war: good logistics. And not if you think about the phase after such failed attack.
Navy not air force here, are those result flights bringing in commissary items or weapon systems?
I’m not saying the US has an easy time or saves all bases. But thinking that the US would fight to occupy if its bases were attacked is a bold assumption.
The EU can close its airspace. The trick is enforcing that.
How? If the US attack they will take out any airfield first.
AA
SAMs
Threaten to release the remaining Epstein Files themselves.
Easy. All fielded and covered and not waiting on known bases to be shot with a rocket from a local American base close-by.
What should the Epstein files do? How much worse can it get? Throwing the baby into the lake was not a problem.
I don't believe that the war would break out because all those weapons are needed against China and Russia. It's just that unlike Russia, the US could take out Europe from within.