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Question for Gawdzilla

ddt said:
:confused: The Nomonhan incident is better known as the battles of Khalkhin Gol, where Zhukov creamed the Japanese army. If anything, it showed serious weaknesses in the Japanese military and was a major factor to dissuade Japan from further aggression against the Soviet Union.
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I was about to say that. The Japanese saw first hand how much of a joke their tanks were compared to even the BT-7 (the only one arguably on par for armour, but with a weaker gun, was the Type 97 Chi-Ha "medium" tank, and the Japanese had 4, the Russians had hundreds of BT-7), and had disproportionately higher losses against a numerically inferior opponent, albeit one with much more tanks and airplanes. Which was also an important factor in the decision to leave the Russian bear alone: what they saw was being hit with insane numbers of tanks, which not they had nothing to stop with, nor even a viable doctrine for dealing with. (E.g., some in depth defense plans.)
 
Gawdzilla said:
Gods don't sink battleships, specially modified naval shells sink battleships.
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Maybe God is a specially modified naval shell, although his combat record when confronted with armour is spotty. judges 1:19.
And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
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Craig B said:
Maybe God is a specially modified naval shell, although his combat record when confronted with armour is spotty. judges 1:19.
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Oh that crazy old Yahweh, what's he been up to now? Getting bullied by the boys in iron chariots again?

No wonder he liked the flood idea so much, no chance of an iron chariot floating away.
 
Gawdzilla said:
Gods don't sink battleships, specially modified naval shells sink battleships.
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At Dahlgren Naval Base in Maryland, one of the public exhibits is a 16 inch shell half way through a large block of armor.
 
Pope130 said:
"Why would god need a battleship?"
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He needs a physical presence...
"He is tramping out the vintage of the grapes of wrath", using Sherman as the avatar.
Just vanishing the combatants on the wrong side would be creepy!
 
Gawdzilla said:
"Sometimes I wonder which side God is on." Erwin Rommel, June 5, 1944.
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Considering Craig B's Bible quote above, he could easily have beaten God. If I had been aware of that quote, I would have laid some flowers on his grave when I lived near, in a variant of Pascal's wager.
 
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