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I think part of the problem was that the US modelled the AAF as a combined force as a US light. Militias were disbanded. it was the militias which knew the lay of the land, knew the detail behind it and how to fight in that terrain. While the northern alliance disbanded and some joined the army, quite a few didn’t, and this was mirrored across Afghanistan. I won’t lay all the blame at the feet of the soldiers and it seems the structure that was set up was great for selling US weapons and defence contracts, ie planes, helicopters uniforms etc. I would not be if a lot of the gains the taliban made was simply the old local militias working under the taliban name when they saw the US pulling out.
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So over the last 12 hours seen a lot of noise about a reforming northern alliance around the Vice President and the son of General Massoud in the Panjshir valley. I can only find sources that the flag was raised and resistance being made in some Indian newspapers anything in any western newspapers reporting on it?
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NHL owners approve jersey ads for 2022-23 season
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
Suitable Ads done well can help cement a team and time. The Newcastle Brown Ale sponsorship on the NUFC top in the 90s screams the entertainers era. It’s synonymous with it. That said the current ones for newcastle are just bad. tbh it was only a matter of time and once it’s there it will only get bigger -
Just seen this on thevBBC Vancouver Whitecaps say three academy players suffered racially motivated attack Last updated on 16 August 202116 August 2021.From the section Football Vancouver Whitecaps' next game is against Austin FC on Thursday Major League Soccer's Vancouver Whitecaps say three academy players were assaulted at an outdoor gathering on Saturday in what the side believes to be a racially motivated attack. One player was taken to hospital but is expected to make a full recovery following surgery, while a suspect was arrested at the scene. "Enough is enough," a Whitecaps statement said. "Such disgusting behaviour has absolutely no place in our community." The club added: "We are heartbroken and sickened by the allegations and strongly condemn all forms of discrimination, racism, and hate. "We will do everything to support our players affected and urge the toughest punishment possible for those responsible."
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The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
UKNuck96 replied to Scottish⑦Canuck's topic in Off-Topic General
Barcelona president Joan Laporta has revealed the Spanish club is 1.35bn euros (£1.15bn) in debt, describing the situation as "very worrying". The club's wage bill currently accounts for 103% of total income. Laporta blames predecessor Josep Maria Bartomeu for the debt, accusing him of leaving a "terrible inheritance". Extending Lionel Messi's contract would have made the wage bill accountable for 110% of revenue, which La Liga refused to accept. Messi announced an emotional exit from the Nou Camp last week and signed for Paris Saint-Germain on a two-year contract. "Our salaries represent 103% of the club's total income, that's 20-25% more than our competitors," said Laporta, now in his second term as president after winning March's election. "The first thing we had to do when we arrived was to ask for a loan of 80m euros because, otherwise, we could not pay the salaries. The previous regime was full of lies. "Barcelona has a negative net worth of 451m euros - it is a terrible inheritance. What has been happening is very worrying." Bartomeu defended himself in an open letter released on Saturday, claiming financial measures he would have put in place had he not been forced to resign in October would have allowed Messi to stay at Barcelona. "As is known, our board of directors planned to call elections on 21 March, within the statutory period at the end of our mandate, which would have allowed us to take on and carry out the settlement of the 2020-21 season accounts," Bartomeu said. "We would then have taken the decisions necessary to avoid arriving at the current financial situation. "We would have been the only ones responsible for the closure [due to the pandemic] and its consequences, a decision that the new board has not taken throughout these past months, making clear their inaction." Laporta described Bartomeu's letter as "an effort to justify management that is unjustifiable" and "an exercise in desperation", adding: "They will not escape their doing." New signings Memphis Depay, Eric Garcia and Rey Manaj were only able to be registered by La Liga after defender Gerard Pique agreed to a wage cut to comply with salary cap rules. -
The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
UKNuck96 replied to Scottish⑦Canuck's topic in Off-Topic General
CAS overruled it, basically Man City broke the spirit of the rules but used loopholes to do it. -
Latvia does, I actually have a few good friends from there who recently went back after brexit. They were all Russian speaking, Latvians from Russian families. None of them want Russia involved in Latvia but they are worried because the Latvian government has slowly been forcing the Russian language out of the country and marginalising the ethnic Russian population because of fears of Crimea and Donbas. However precisely because of this there had been backlash against the government which potentially leads it into that situation you described. for Estonia it has about 25% Russian minority which is significant. the issue in Ukraine was nothing to do with nationalism and all to do with forcing Ukraine away from the western sphere as the government had started the process of applying for EU accession. The pro EU government also was looking to join nato which Russia did not want. Russia’s has always argued against EU admitting the eastern block countries and did not want what was seen as a traditional heartland and founding place of Russia bring in the EU or NATO. crimea did have a small separatism movement furled by the 1992 agreement which was then torn up by Kiev. But not a majority, the Donbas region never really had anything significant and polls have shown they favour massively full reintegration with Ukraine under the same conditions as before - using your logic shouldn’t Russia hand at least the Donbas region back? .
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Using your logic it would be fine for Russia to annex Moldova, Latvia and Estonia, and what’s happening in Georgia is also perfectly fine with the creeping border? I agree that the West never should have gone into Afghanistan however they did, to those who’s using it as a crux of their argument it’s a poor argument to use well they shouldn’t have. They did and once they did they should have engaged in nation building. Biden speech saying this wasn’t about nation building Ifeel is wrong. They shouldn’t have been there but once they were they had a responsibility to fix it.
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The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
UKNuck96 replied to Scottish⑦Canuck's topic in Off-Topic General
FFP is only partly about transfers, it’s about the overall ability of a club to generate revenue vs it’s expenditure. However there are ways around it which PSG and Man City use where they are effectively sponsored by their owners to class it as revenue -
Yep - also the Afghan population I believe is really young like 46% 15 or under. So almost half the population probably half when you factor in up to 20 year olds have never lived under taliban rule (unless it was in areas recaptured the other year) I can understand the panic when you factor that in. the west should not have got involved in the first place but in my view once you go in it’s on you to sort it out before you leave. we have seen the Kurds in Syria and Iraq abandoned to the Turkish, Syrian and Russian militaries once there wasn’t an appetite anymore, we have seen a collective shrug for Ukraine when the Donbas and Crimea were annexed by Russians. We have seen the Afghans abandoned, how many others cast aside once the American military complex’s will has been drained from one combat zone. on a separate poor while the Afghan army was abo it 3 times the size of the taliban - it was built to be a combined force and not really one suitable for the terrain or environment. They focused on having a wide visible presence over operational strategic deployment, meaning they were often isolated surrounded and cut off in small chunks. They should have pulled back and looked to control more urban areas and also have civilian support rather then man remote checkpoints in smaller groups https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/how-the-taliban-did-it-inside-the-operational-art-of-its-military-victory/ but it’s easy to say that from the comfort of my own home. The US didn’t put the effort into nation building unlike with Germany after ww2. While it would need to be different, they just funnelled money into a government and military and didn’t really aim to win hearts and minds, nor look to build up the core infrastructure to make each area self sufficient and stable.
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[Signing] Canucks re-sign Jason Dickinson
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Don’t knock - we made the top tier for the last one and are still in the championship division, had a higher scoring efficiency than Canada and had a player in the top to points scorers (6th) We also have a winter Olympic gold medal once (albeit back in the 40s) In 1990 we were in the bottom group of the World championships, in 2017 we got promoted and again in 2018 to make the championship tier. All but one of our players plays in the UK we have no stars and I believe non of the current roster has played in the NHL or KHL, how the hell we managed to get to the championship tier is nothing short of miraculous -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Jason Dickinson
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Take a look in the trade and proposal threads and the general off season comments from last off season there was quite a lot A lot of the benning haters also seemed to prefer rafferty over Rathbone -
[Signing] Canucks re-sign Jason Dickinson
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Yep but read last off season and people had him on the scrap heap and Rafferty in the show. Yet when anyone pointed out it’s likely the be the other way due to the development curve for Rathbone and his ability to read the game at an elite level people scoffed. -
The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
UKNuck96 replied to Scottish⑦Canuck's topic in Off-Topic General
Arsenal always start slow. going to be fun watching match of the day again this evening -
[Signing] Jets re-sign Andrew Copp
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
I think Winnipeg might cop it -
The UK has sent 600 troops and helicopters to get UK nationals and Afghan interpreters out of the country asap
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[Signing] Canucks sign Brady Keeper
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Why not 10/8 can roll 4 D paring or roll 3 forward lines, 3 defensive lines and have the extra slots as specialists for both the forwards and D - like a PKer or Faceoff monster etc -
thing is though from experience often this part isn’t usually implemented well, resulting in discrimination against those who are already often discriminated against compounding the effect, that and jobsworth and people who actually have to implement it often don’t do a good job and will default to no passport no entry even if there is an exception. unless that actually give the same COVID passport to exempt people in the same way it’s just ripe for abuse and discrimination. when I mean exempt I mean those who are medically excerpt and not self declared exempt people
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Wasn’t aware - thanks
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The Official European Football (Soccer) Thread
UKNuck96 replied to Scottish⑦Canuck's topic in Off-Topic General
We have heard that before. -
Nearly 9,000 people in Germany have to be vaccinated again after a nurse swapped vaccines for salt water https://www.businessinsider.com/9000-people-germany-vaccinations-nurse-swapped-vaccines-for-saline-2021-8?amp&utm_source=reddit.com
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[Signing] Canucks re-sign Olli Juolevi
UKNuck96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Where does that piece actually come from, from what I’ve read and heard that is Kuzma spinning. Shaw won’t be running the defence as he will be greens right hand man and will be overseeing the whole team structures, which would include the team D structure which would include the forwards and well as the zone defence from the D men -
What I mean is that it’s more likely that you would get a push for cascadia from within those areas than you would support for a 54-40
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Tbh probably would be better to push for cascadia more likely that than 54-40