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The new nerd-sniping question is circulating on Twitter. Who would win in a war: 1939 Europe or 2026 Africa? As usual, both camps are 100% their side would win.
My bet is on 1939 Europe. As the Russo-Ukrainian and the US-Iran wars show, ammunition stockpiles run out in a couple of weeks. Africans won't have missiles for their fighter jets and shells for their MBTs, while Europeans will be cranking out bombs and strategic bombers to turn Cairo into Dresden. When German subs destroy whatever boats Africans have, French and British navies will perform naval landings, their troops armed with reverse-engineered AKs.
Hm, just considered a possible offensive strategy for Africa - concentrate all their modern assets at the Pillars of Hercules and the Sinai, use their limited stock of modern weapons to cross into Spain (saving some to force a crossing of the Bosporus), zerg rush up Southern Spain and the Middle East (if the scenario allows), use Toyota warfare fueled by Algerian/Libyan petrol for logistics and mobility, modern civilian airliners for key supplies (can fly above the combat ceiling of early-war fighters, landing protected by MANPADs), otherwise rely for resupply on capturing European equipment and using local slave labour to run captured industries. You probably end up with grinding mountain warfare with both sides basically using WWII tech with some modern stuff sprinkled in, Africa having a much larger population but far lower-quality troops. Still almost certainly a win for Team Europe (I would guess Spain stabilizes at the Pyrenees, at which point the front is reliant on the Spanish munitions industry and a trickle of North African weapons production and ends up outgunned, and the Balkans is just infinite mountains full of racist guerillas), but a better show for Team Africa than sitting around being raided to death like a Japan with no navy.
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