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>Europe has no real military.
Europe is pretty much equivalent to the US currently in terms of standing armies
EU armies are more ground heavy and have triple the reservists while US has the air advantage; US navy is blue water and european is littoral (this causes a naval deadlock, since neither can challenge the other)
>Nor do they have megacorporations.
European defense production has tripled in 3 years with existing factories going into wartime production and is set to be triple again by 2028 with new factories being finished
You're also ignoring the fact that the US military industrial complex is entirely dependent on european electronics, industrial machinery and other fine instruments
F-35s targeting and EWAR systems for example are european in origin
Meanwhile europe has almost exclusively imported only finished military products from the US to supplement domestic/european production
Europe is going through a total re-armament
It's not far-fetched at all if they place the trigger for the events a couple of years earlier in the story