(1) Being part of the Eurozone doesn't necessarily connote that they're fitting into the EU; when I went to visit family in Kerry a couple of summers ago, I heard a fair number of people complaining about the EU, and Ireland losing its ability to rule itself (whether abortion would be legal, or control who immigrates into it, for example). It's only gotten worse since.BritishImperial said:(1) doesnt ireland have the euro? you know, suggesting they are fairly into being part of europe...
(2) i love this aar. half because it is well written, entertaining, and involves the good guys winning ( ) and half because every american on the forum has swooped down and got in a big paddy because thinsulate dared to say the usn is losing. i think it is kinda plausible, as the yanks were lured close enough for a lot of the quite formidable european air force to help out.
(3) as the eu's gdp is bigger than that of the US, it is plausible to say that in a war without nukes, the EU could triumph. we have the SAS
(2) The thing is, the USN doesn't just have carriers, but carrier battle groups, with subs, a destroyer squadron, Aegis cruisers, guided missile destroyers, the whole shabang, on top of the carriers themselves (with surface-to-air missiles of their own, if they needed them) and the CAGs. With two carrier groups together--which is what you would need to sink two USN carriers--you basically have to be flying UFOs to get to the carriers themselves.
(3) Irrelevant. The US has a might higher military budget per GDP than the EU: 4.06% vs. much smaller percentages (only four European NATO countries have military spending higher than 2% of their GDP ), and their economy isn't bigger enough to offset the difference.
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