Raging-Fuhry
Raging-Fuhry t1_j7miqyc wrote
Reply to comment by Doortofreeside in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87
They did attack the Soviets at Khalkin Gol.
The poorly equipped and led IJA (which had been stripped of a lot of funding and manpower by the IJN) got totally obliterated by Soviet far eastern forces.
Japan immediately brokered a ceasefire with the Soviets, which the USSR held until they invaded Manchuria and the Kurils in '45.
Raging-Fuhry t1_iuv2hxo wrote
Reply to comment by Kered13 in When it comes to Cuba's military victory at the Bay of Pigs, does Che Guevara deserve any credit or should it be assigned exclusively to Castro's leadership? by Anglicanpolitics123
I know lol, why else would they be fighting the Khmer Rouge.
They were fighting a defensive war against an aggressive and probing Cambodia that was in kahoots with China, Vietnam's long time nemesis.
I'd say it was defensive when the Khmer Rouge starting killing Vietnamese villagers on the border.
Raging-Fuhry t1_iusnmha wrote
Reply to comment by ItsAlwaysSmokyInReno in When it comes to Cuba's military victory at the Bay of Pigs, does Che Guevara deserve any credit or should it be assigned exclusively to Castro's leadership? by Anglicanpolitics123
But Vietnam was fighting a defensive war, they didn't need it as justification.
Raging-Fuhry t1_itvw2ij wrote
Reply to comment by Financial_Nebula in Android phones offered early US quake warning, beating iPhones to the punch | Google's earthquake detection network turns Android phones into seismometers, and it paid off yesterday. by chrisdh79
>often preceded
There are no guarantees in seismology, what may be "often" true is very different from "always" true. Large Earthquakes also often come without warning, and small earthquakes often don't precede anything. It's not reliable enough data for prediction and geologists (at least in Canada/States) aren't able to do much with it.
A technique seismologists do use is to examine the historical record and try to make empirical predictions from the frequency of large Earthquakes, but again this is an entirely empirical method and has very large error.
Raging-Fuhry t1_j7mmbsi wrote
Reply to comment by OrangeSlimeSoda in Would the Allies have kept fighting if the axis powers stopped? by Techno-87
It's worth noting that the VVS still lost less airmen than the IJA, and the otherwise outdated I-16 fighter was a good match against Japanese planes since it's light armament could still damage the lightly armoured IJA planes, and it was just as maneuverable.