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Ecthy is offline Ecthy
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a Germany with far fewer troops and inferior weapons


In WWII? Dream on...

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I would set up 3 seemingly private corporations, but secretly under government control. Call them 'Red', 'White', and 'Blue' for the purposes of this post. Red would set up it's headquarters in Bismark, North Dakota. Blue in Pierre, South Dakota. White could set up anywhere.

The Red and Blue corporation swould chose a minority group to target. It doesn't really matter if they are ethnic, racial, or political groups, just so long as Red opposes Blue and vice versa. They would lure these people in with lucrative contracts and paid relocation.

The White corporation would do the same, but by hiring anyone in North or South Dakota that didn't fit into the controlling minority, and relocating them someplace else.

All of the GNP that I could spare I would funnel into the Red and Blue corporations to promote an illusion of wealth and prestige. Neither corporation would actually produce anything, all the jobs would be busywork with no real purpose.

Then I would cede North Dakota to Germany, and South Dakota to France (hey, the capitols sound right) as a sign of good will towards the EU.

Quickly the situation would become desperate in each of the two states, as the government controlled corporations collapsed. There would be no real product produced, and no more 'free' money. A few discrete border incidents (incited by US agents) would cause war between Germany and France.

I would then get the UN to send in American forces as 'Peacekeepers' along the German/French borders. No need for a messy landing operation. NARF!

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Yes I do know how big Germany is, Yes I do know how far south Germany goes .. I have no idea why you keep talking about subs though.. ??

How far do you think missiles can fire ?? and what did you think I was talking about when I said "Go after Germany's Industry" .. ?? You don't need to hit every square meter of a country, to render its Industry near ineffective .. Transport, communications, and power stations ... BYE BYE Industry .. much easier to do this to Germany than the US .. and much much easier to do it to Holland than Germany .. (please please don't ask me if I know where Holland is .. yes yes yes)

Sure that would take a damn lot of missiles/air bombing .. are you saying that the US could not manufacture that amount ?? and do you think anybody would contemplate invading the entire EU or US for that matter, without first equipping themselves .. im assuming all this stuff .. In war, you do whatever is needed ..

I agree, Nuclear would certainly be much more effective .. but I was interested if we had any bold warmongers, who could formulate a plan for invasion using conventional ...

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I like the idea's of using corporations to do the majority of the work .. especially if that corporation happens to make military hardware

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I don't even know why I still bother with you and your childish posts (full of "!!!!", "???", ".." "BYE BYE"). Though here it goes.

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"Go after Germany's Industry" .. ?? You don't need to hit every square meter of a country, to render its Industry near ineffective .. Transport, communications, and power stations ... BYE BYE Industry


Any idea how much industry, transport and comm facilities, and powerstations Germany has? And how far they are spread apart? Any idea how long it will take to take out Germany's industrial capabilities with missiles alone, and how many missiles it will take? And any idea on exactly where you'll fire the missiles from? Hint: you can't fire them from the North Sea or Baltic because it will be too heavily defended.

And after you're done taking out Germany's indsutrial capabilities, you are 2 years into the war, costs will have risen too extremes (any idea how much cruise missiles cost), and the American people will protest (since it's clear that the US invaded Europe, not the other way around).

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Sure that would take a damn lot of missiles/air bombing ..


airbombing? from where exactly will you send aircraft to strike at the heart of Europe? Carrier based aircraft will be only avaliable in relatively small numbers, and they are inferior to European fighter aircraft. Bombers also won't stand much of a chance against the European airforces. Stealth aircraft are too expensive, too rare, and not powerful enough.

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are you saying that the US could not manufacture that amount ??


Sure you can. But it will hurt the US economy much more than the EU economy, if the US should adopt the strategy you proposed. It would cost way too much, and the American taxpayers won't stand for it.

A land based campaign from Russia will be a lot cheaper and a lot more effective.

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I agree, Nuclear would certainly be much more effective


Effictive in destroying the US, that's for sure. France and Britain will nuke every mayor American city.


Now I'll stop wasting my time on your posts, and hope there are some somewhat smarter and more mature posters here, who actually know what they are talking about.

Only cruise missiles to destroy Germany's industrial capabilities. lol. the idea alone.

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Hehe, Saint Marcus seems to be intent on proving that a next-to-impossible situation is next-to-impossible.

It'd take a military commander superior to anyone around here to think of a good battle plan in this scenario...

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Marcus,

I really think you missed the point of the thread. Seems to have gone *pfff* right past you. ITS NOT SERIOUS! Its light fun for armchair napoleans. Of course the idea of invading the EU/US is absurd. And so wmost of the posts in the thread will also be, more or less, absurd.

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Hehe, Saint Marcus seems to be intent on proving that a next-to-impossible situation is next-to-impossible.


cause some people make it sound so easy.

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I didn't say it was easy, I was just offering my best guess.

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St.Marcus ..


Lets leave it here .. we don't agree .. big wow .. I see no need for personal insults.

ps.. just for the record, you were born in 1982 .. which was when I started to learn Z80 Assembly .. those were the days

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Any idea how far Austria is from the coast? Or how about south Germany?

And also note that the Americans won't have access to the mediterian, and not the North Sea and Baltic either. So from where exactly do you want to launch Cruise Missiles headed for Austria or south Germany?


IIRC, Tomahawk cruise missiles have a range of over a thousand miles. (I forget then mile/kilometer conversion).

Are you actually saying our good friends the Israelis won't bust open the Suez to let us into the mediterian?

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hi ,


lauch a couple guys with some bio-weapons , wait a while , move in , ....

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What a great idea.... alpine submarines


Doesn't Austria have a Mountain Navy?

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Doesn't Austria have a Mountain Navy?


hi ,


yep , for the lakes and rivers , ....

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US to Europe :

1) Treason of UK, which was for all time a US spy, trying to slow down the UE construction.
2) Use UK soil to prepare a full-scale invasion.
3) Land on the Pas-de-Calais while everyone wait them in Normandy.
4) Tell to Frenchs that they're wussies that can't fight them alone and need allies.
5) French are upset and want to prove that they are better than Americans. They decide then to fight alone.
6) US vs France one on one (do I really need to give you the result ?)
7) During all this time, Microsoft bought Eastern Europe.
8) USA makes an agreement with the italian mafias in New York.
9) Following the agreement, mafias in Italy overthrown the government.
10 ) USA promise to Russia that they can get any land from Finland they are able to take.
11) Russia take a beating against Finland, but busy the Scandinavian armies for the rest of the war.
12) USA support a military junta in Greece taking the power.
13) Spain and Portugal, cut from their allies, accept the fair proposition of becoming satellites of USA and receiving their wastes and military bases.
14) Germany, Austria, Denmark and Benelux find themselves surrounded by Microsoft on the east, US armies on the west and mafias on the south.
15) As remnant of Europe do not have nukes anymore, USA nukes them until it's a wasteland.

US wins.


Europe to US :

1) UE makes dirty comments about the international politics of USA.
2) UE orchestrate several attempt to enforce the decisions of UN onto USA. Of course, there is vetos everytime. So all the world see USA as a big bad boy that does not want rules aplied to it. In the same time, it makes UN even more impopular in US, and extreme-right militias gain more supports from population.
3) UE discretly help financially the gun lobby in USA, and sell weapons at low prices to militias.
4) "when F-16 and vacuum bombs weapons are outlawed, only outlaws have F-16 and vacuum bombs weapons" becomes the new motto of the gun lobby.
5) UE give also support to Black Panthers-like activists and extreme-left parties.
6) France nukes UK that gave US informations while Germany invades the non-targeted pieces of land of UK. It's of course called a "slight error during our final nuclear tests". German army was called here to "help the survivors getting out of the radioactive regions". Of course, only military targets are actually considered radioactive.
7) UE gives support to southern militas.
8) Now that blacks, commies, fascists, militias and KKK all got their weapons and there is a very big anti-UN feeling in the population, UE suggest that UN should send peacekeepers in US to help restablishing orders and make the riots cease.
9) UE leaders calmly put their asses in comfortable chairs while seeing USA imploding.
10) UE leaders frown when seeing USA becoming a huge atomic blast, then reming the last gun lobby's motto : "when atomic bombs are outlawed, only outlaws have atomic bombs".

Europe wins.

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IIRC, Tomahawk cruise missiles have a range of over a thousand miles. (I forget then mile/kilometer conversion


1 mile = 1,609 km

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So come on chaps .. how would you do it .. Austria im sure is the least of your concerns .. The Fins will be waiting of the coast of Canada .. as they were a thousand years ago ..

(same boats and hats .. don't laugh though, they get very angry)

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IIRC, Tomahawk cruise missiles have a range of over a thousand miles. (I forget then mile/kilometer conversion).

Are you actually saying our good friends the Israelis won't bust open the Suez to let us into the mediterian?


I'd say about 1400 km.
As for the Israelis, i agree that they'd probably be tempted to support the US, but then that would give the arab world an opportunity to get involved, with the guarantee the the EU would not be "impartial" spectators but instead would give them all the support they could. (That probably wouldn't be much considering they'd have the US on their hands but still...)
And you also have to ask: what would Russia do?
And China ?

Interesting !

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hi ,

first you let explode some nukes in atmosphere , that should give a big ion-field , all comps , gsm , electricity down , ......

second release some humans who dont know that they are infected with the plaque , mycoplasma , and some other stuff , ...

third , enjoy your coffee in the bunker

four , wait a year and clean up with VX nerve gas , ....

that should do it , even for a small nation , or a large company ,

five , the world is yours , ..........huh no money back hé , ..;

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Id imagine China would sit back and let them destroy each other .. however, the question would be, what would they do if one was obviously winning , and with suprising amount of sucess ..

Russia also would be interesting .. and India .. I imagine both would stay out, and also who was the aggresor .. if the EU invaded the US .. or tried .. I would imagine the US would try and get Russia to help .. would they ??? not sure.

But if the US invaded EU .. well, it would be a lot more concerning for them, wondering if the US was going to stop at taking Europe ...

India would sit and accept whatever happens, Im not sure they are really in any position yet to contribute .. but in 20-30 years, who's to say.

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1 mile = 1,609 km


hi ,

warning , the cruise missiles of the navy have a bigger range , and that has nothing to do with the fact that a nautic-mile is bigger , ....

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Since the US already occupies Europe, game over.

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I'd probably hit Britain first, to get a little bit of a foothold and then.... Normandy again. Blitz the French, and Spain. Then dig in against the Germans and Take your time playing with the Italian Army. Cruise missles could help as well.

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Id imagine China would sit back and let them destroy each other .. however, the question would be, what would they do if one was obviously winning , and with suprising amount of sucess ..

Russia also would be interesting .. and India .. I imagine both would stay out, and also who was the aggresor .. if the EU invaded the US .. or tried .. I would imagine the US would try and get Russia to help .. would they ??? not sure.

But if the US invaded EU .. well, it would be a lot more concerning for them, wondering if the US was going to stop at taking Europe ...

India would sit and accept whatever happens, Im not sure they are really in any position yet to contribute .. but in 20-30 years, who's to say.


I guess the one thing they all have in common is : if either the US or the EU was to succeed in invading the other, that would most probably mean world domination on the short/medium term for the winner. (After reconstruction)
Would any of them stay back and wait for the result ?

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I just could not see China getting involved .. I could imagine them using it as a jumping board diplomatically, especially if there was a lot of re-building needed.

If the EU won in the US, how long would it be before Canada joined .. Im sure they would have got involved anyway .. and so probably would join instantly . .I imagine Mexico would also join .. that would most certainly be an issue for China if they wish to become a world super power .. It would dwalf them ..

Maybe China would flip to Democracy, and all the S.Asian nations would join together, including Japan .. What would S.America, Australia and Africa/Middle East do ?????

Its hard to imagine a world, where there is only 3 or 4 countries .. but who knows ..

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EU - Iceland - Greenland - Canada - US would be the best way to invade the US. Enough space for airports to station aircraft protecting the shipping route, alongside EU navies. All we need is to get Canada in . After that the Midwest can be invaded and the US is doomed

About we take back what is ours.

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And also note that the Americans won't have access to the mediterian, and not the North Sea and Baltic either. So from where exactly do you want to launch Cruise Missiles headed for Austria or south Germany?


The Med is an American lake. Got a clue how much firepower and real experience/savvy there is in the Sixth Fleet?

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It would be a huge stretch for either entity to do this. one facotr that I always see underestimated is the lack of unity of command in the EU. It's not a country. It's a collection of countries. You can't just combine armies and navies either. It's not civ...

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now who would win if it was?

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Well...that's another issue...

But even if the alliance held together at a political level, the different armies don't add up like little Risk pieces. A strong, unified force will beat a diverse molygolt of patched together forces.

Also the US has some "premier" type equipment which the EU doesn't (aircraft carriers, EA6's , etc.)

 
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