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I don't think Europe ever actually goes to war against the US. US could annex Greenland and Canada and EU leaders would only issue strongly-worded letters. Most that happens is they try to onshore all armaments production. The idea that the US is actually going Germany 1939 mode won't be entertained unless the US starts launching annexations of the UK or European mainland. USians won't care. It isn't as though if the dems regain power they'll un-annex the territory.
For domestic stuff idk. I went through 2020 like the rest of you. We are in an awful spot with the dems, who can very effectively channel & dissipate revolutionary sentiment. Median lib accepts the Biden years as a failure but views the Obama years as a great success. Although the left is broadly more organized overall compared to then, and most have probably recovered from Gaza encampment burnout. I don't know if any dem out there actually has the spine to sic state-level law enforcement against the feds, which would be a moment of rupture. Dems are freaks who have wanted to be "in politics" since fifth grade. Could one of them pull a wild stunt on the calculus that people would back them? It totally goes against the sort of incrementalist institutionalist personality cultivated by the party.
Invading the UK or the Continent is totally useless. There are no real resources. The land is not strategically placed. The US has more than it could ever need. Germany didn't go after Europe. It went after the vast wealth of Russia and Europe was a necessary stepping stone.
If the US could maintain a war machine that spanned from Greenland to Tierra del Fuego, they would have more resources than they could possibly use in an all out global war.
The problem will always be that the people will resist.