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[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 23 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

You mean like that time when a Swedish diesel sub bypassed all the defenses and "sunk" the US carrier?

Or that time when Netherlands sub "sunk" one?

Or that time when Australia "sunk" one?

Or that time when Canada "sunk" one?

Those carriers are far from invincible.

The USA is historically bad at wars - Afghanistan, Vietnam, Korea - all lost despite their massive military spending.

The only wars they won in modern times are the ones where they received help from their EU NATO allies.

They're only good at "strike and run away" operations, like the one in Venezuela.

If they can't take Greenland overnight, it will cost them very dearly to go to war with NATO, with no certainty of winning.

[–] RaskolnikovsAxe@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago

To add to this, the US is not that great in the Arctic. To occupy Greenland they need boots on the ground, and they are not equipped or manned to do Arctic land operations. EU + Canada surpass them in that. The US only has the one airborne division that are actually cold weather fighters. They also have far fewer ice breakers and the additional units that they were going to buy from Finland (who makes the best ones in the world) will surely be canceled.