hey guys welcome back to foreign reacts today we're going to be checking out the european
union versus the united states so eu versus usa uh 2017 this video is 2017 so it's got four years on
it uh well not four years we're actually in 2022 which is kind of crazy but um yeah we got a couple
years on it but um it should be still accurate to the most part except for um the eu no longer
has uh you know who in their brexit uh yeah but either ways uh who would win army slash military
comparison so we're gonna see what's going on right now so uh smash that like button and
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to all be a part of it let's get it guys the world watched in wonder when in 1993 the european union
was officially formed questions abounded would the uk and france finally be able to live harmoniously
in perpetuity would germany and the rest of europe finally form an unbreakable alliance
with a currency to rival that of the us and the combined military might of 28 different countries
the eu could easily be one of america's greatest trading partners or one of its most menacing foes
although the american and european alliance is the strongest today than it's ever been
we thought it would be interesting to compare the military might of these two powerhouses
and determine who would most likely win in a theoretical war in this episode of the infographic
show the european union versus the united states of america i i i think europe could easily win
uh yeah and i don't i don't back down when it comes to america but i think you could easily win
i mean come on bro they have more people right you guys got more people right um
i mean like the allies that america has really comes from europe it's not like okay we we have
canada right we got japan but japan is not gonna get into a war between the us and the
eu they're not they're just not going to do that so practically you don't have that ally right
i don't see many people that would you know so we i don't know although money isn't everything
the first major difference worth pointing out is military spending the annual defense budget
of the european union which still includes the uk even though they recently voted to brexit is 227
billion or three times smaller than the united states annual defense budget of 664 billion
dollars when it comes to manpower the eu has a population of 743 million people with 1.4 million
being active that's where they're gonna have the strength all we got over here is just 320 uh 329
331 mill somewhere there military personnel and 1.7 million being reserved personnel the united
states has a population of 324 million people with 1.4 million being active military personnel and
1.1 million being reserve personnel with programs such as saber strike the seventh army training
command and the atlantic resolve it is safe to assume that the close connection between the u.s
and the eu has resulted in reasonably similar training for the army personnel of each country
in terms of land systems the eu and the us are also similarly matched the eu has 6 700 tanks 48
971 afps 2 312 spgs 3492 towed artillery and 1069 mlrs's the us on the other hand has a fleet
of 8 848 tanks 41 000 afvs 1 1934 spgs 1300 towed artillery and 1331 mlrs's despite the us having a
larger number of ground tanks germany makes one of the top ranked tanks the leopard 2 which has
been purchased in the hundreds by countries all over europe it should be noted that while the us
has troops and missiles stationed in europe there are no european army bases in the us this is an
obvious advantage to the u.s who could more easily bring the battle to european soil keeping it away
from the plants which manufacture american weapons and again turning europe into a war zone similar
to world war ii of the u.s missiles on european soil the aegis ashore missile defense system
located in romania has recently gone online and is manned by 130 u.s sailors this defense system
is currently run by nato but in the case of a u.s eu war it would become an ideal base for the u.s
on european soil with regard to air power the u.s currently has a larger and more modern air force
with 13 444 aircraft the most popular being the american-made f-16 fighting falcon the eu has
less than half that with 6751 total aircraft the most popular being the euro fighter typhoon since
the us and the european union are on two different continents it's important to take a look at each
country's naval power the eu has a total of 61 submarines 102 frigates 21 destroyers 39 corvettes
167 mine warfare craft and 210 patrol craft the united states on the other hand has 75 submarines
six frigates 62 destroyers zero corvettes 11 mine warfare craft and 13 patrol craft
the two seem pretty tight i'm not really even sure why america technically doesn't really focus a lot
on the water for some reason it's really the equipment that america really has strength in
would have been i'm just not sure why the u.s always be focused on the air support mainly
i'm not sure but i really do think air support is really more effective because um it just is
all them some submarines bro you know it would take a long time to get all that over here like it
it just takes way too long to go by ship and buy boats and all that but the aircrafts i know that
the us is gonna definitely have those to land like you know the fighter jets and so
on so forth but either ways it's uh pretty pretty interesting however the eu only has eight aircraft
carriers compared to the us's 19. in the unlikely scenario that nuclear weapons are losing the us
has a stockpile of 6 800 nuclear warheads with 150 nuclear warheads located directly in europe
europe barely has 500 nuclear warheads of its own split nearly evenly between the uk and france
as we all know a major component of this military assessment is fuel since almost
every ground vehicle aircraft and naval unit needs fuel in order to operate the european
union produces only 1.7 million barrels of oil a day and consumes almost eight times that each day
it also has 5.6 billion barrels of oil in reserve the united states produces 9 million barrels of
oil a day and consumes 19 million barrels daily though it has 37 billion barrels of oil in reserve
it is safe to say both countries would need to rely on importing oil from other countries
the eu and the us share most of their allies and it would be very interesting to see that's the
whole point they share because they're not okay imagine that you're an ally so automatically the
lies that you have are going to simply be the same like both of you guys so it's gonna like literally
be if that was supposed to happen that would be a really really psychotic pointless war i guess
who allies with whom as many will point out experience is also a major factor when assessing
military prowess the eu and the us have been involved in the same wars for the last decade
however the u.s military exists as a unified entity and the eu runs much of their military on
a country by country basis making communication and tactical planning much more complicated
when it comes to the all-seeing eyes from space both the european union and the united
states run their own global navigation satellite systems the u.s has gps and the eu has galileo
billion signals called selective availability one of the main reasons the eu developed galileo was
due to its concern that the u.s could deny others access to gps during political disagreements
the two came to a compromise and the u.s is now in the process of replacing old gps satellites
with new ones that will not have selective availability enabled so who do you think would win
the war the u.s or the eu do you think there are factors we omitted that would make a difference
is war between the eu and the us even a possibility let us know in the comments and if you
want to get a daily comparison or fun fact i don't think the eu would ever try to uh fight american i
don't think america ever tried to fight the eu bro there are way too many allies bro like literally
the eu comprises of the allies of america right when you take away the asians and all those
obviously but the eu's practically america's strongest allies export import eu right so no
i know and i'm not saying that the the eu is america's number one import or export i'm not
saying that i i'm not i'm not saying that so don't get it twisted i'm just speaking about
the the the mass of other countries that u.s imports and exports to literally is europe but
either way so um that's that guys leave a like in the video and subscribe i'm out of here guys peace