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My honest guess is that the US has built remote shit into a lot of the heavy NATO weapons so if they were ever turned on the US they could be disabled or at least tracked. This would make repelling a US attack nearly impossible except where countries have maintained their own independent military infrastructure which is probably next to non-existent.
The US military can't hold more ground than a military base anywhere though. They haven't been able to since WW2 and even that's being generous to them. Their whole MO is destroying and terrorizing a country in the hopes they succumb to the US' whims. The US military cannot occupy or conquer foreign lands. So the US military could probably return Europe to the state it was in after WW2 if they wanted but they couldn't meaningfully control it if the Europeans didn't want to be controlled.