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Solo EU vs. solo US would lead to a stalemate, both sides quickly realising that the other party is on the other side of the Atlantic and that noone has a counter against stealth subs, which the US would be able to develop before the EU has time to build a non-negligible amount of aircraft carriers. Nukes won't be an issue both sides have enough second-strike capabilities to turn the other side to glass, unless the US gets a foothold in France at which point the French would first strike. So don't do that, especially when the stalemate is so comfortably an ocean wide.
Luxembourg, Malta, Cyprus.
...I mean generally speaking you're right but technically no.
I said “at random” for a reason. The likelihood of choosing all three of the least preparable nations is 1/1000. I don’t believe you chose randomly, and therefore would like to indicate that your mother is a hamster and your father smells of elderberries.
Lithuania Latvia Estonia.
And your father smells even more of elderberries in the morning than the evening
Ye cool. The point is you think a random function will choose Germany, France, Spain, Poland or Italy. When there is 27 countries in the EU, most of them utterly unprepared for war.
Continued notification game eh? Take the 1
But I could have chosen randomly, your post might be read by a billion people each rolling their own set of independent dice, and that's why you don't leave engineering to theorists.
...and it's the three least populous nations, btw. Together about 2m people. About the average of Lithuania and Slovenia, a bit more than a tenth of Romania, or about 0.45% of the whole of the EU.
Truthfully, I realized all of this, including the specific countries someone might choose, and giggled at my coming retort as I wrote the comment. Get baited, nerd.
Europe has many stealth subs, I mean scary stealth, like pop up undetected in the middle of a US carrier group and "sink" a US carrier stealthy, several aircraft carriers, and four or five of the world's top 10 arms exporter countries.
Missiles, Eurofighters, Rafales, Gripens, F35s, nukes, last gen frigates and destroyers...
Overwhelmingly superior in tech, generation, and number to what Russia has and Ukraine is being given. Also a tech and and manufacturing might vastly superior. Ukraine is not Nato. Even without the US, Europe would wipe the floor with Russia, and Putin knows.
That said, if combined with the US would really make it a special operation.
Also remeber that the USSR was able to defeat Hitler because of Allied material, especially US through Lend-lease.