Many notice the striking similarities.but not the west.

Recently we are bombarded with interviews of experts and politicians, blah blah , how about one simple answer:

Taliban, just like ccp, got support from people, or more precisely those muddy legs!

Right , we are talking about those poorest, least educated, usually living countryside, and ignored, not counted as “people” throughout human being history.

Almost a century passed, west learned nothing, or maybe deliberately chose to ignore.

Then. Lots of reports such as Paris of the orient, golden decade, great adavances in BJ and SH, blah blah, west focused on people like song family. Blah, blah. China would be a great west ally, those red bandits? Nothing to worry about.

Now, how similar, nytimes just had a report about one Iraq city, how much progress there, did the reporter dare to visit outside of city, I guess lots of bodyguards around. About Afghan, always focus on things like election, wome rights,even lgbt! Similar for shah,s Iran before revolution. Blah, blah… talk about learning run before walk.

Mao perhaps was the only one who fully knew and capitalized on the power of muddy legs. Huang chao, Li zicheng pretty good, but far from mao. Hitler maybe second. Taliban likely studied mao, hard.

I always sayMarxism got one thing absolutely right:
People determine history.

Yet we must realize: unlike politicians all over the world who always paint people as a positive word, it is neutral.

People can do good just as much as bad. All our progress in civilization are made by no names, such as 40 years of recent china. Yet, Germany Japan in ww2, ccp grabbing china, nowadays taliban, also resulted from people. Just a few bad apples like hitler, Stalin, and mao? that is absurd. History are written by people like you and me, not vips. We create good ones but also bad.

I said above china owes all to hard works by those no names, yet they are in danger of being left behind again. People like bluesea enjoying good lives in Shanghai, quite like song family, is not top priority . SH to be more alike NY neither, focus needs to be on the forgotten china.

That is the the book title written by 2 westerns, or invisible china.yes we are talking those without hukouin big cities.

Ccp got power from muddy legs, and overall seemed keeping this in mind, we saw the news of eradicating absolute poverty, and malaria, all good, but far from enough. Now relaxing on pop control, worst move, people like bluesea are not going to have 3 kids no matte what, yet the poor always will have more babies. The forgotten or invisible china just get bigger and bigge, they are volcanoes! When erupt? Hope never.

They are the real heroes, or villains, depending how they are treated. Read history, we can learn future. We people can create the nowadays china miracle, but we can also easily destroy it.

有田有地皆吾主，无法无天是为民。重庆有官皆墨吏，延安无土不黄金。炸桥挖路为团结，夺地争城是斗争。遍地哀鸿遍地血，无非一念救苍生

How bone chilling the last verse! Taliban definitely think the same way.

Ignore the no names at one,s own peril, don,t have to look far, just check those upper classes trying to flee out of Kabul, jus like those in bj and sh before 1950.

Btw taliban is way more mighty than ccp, who got help from Japan when in deepest trouble, and later Soviet. Taliban?perhaps only Pakistan. Except recent unconfirmed news of russia bounty claim, America as far as I can remember, did not blame russia, china or Iran. Even Pakistan, namely still Americans ally, is not that powerful, even fully supporting taliban, still hard to imagine how they not just survived and now on verge of total win, where they get supplies?their enemies are the US! And nato, even German sent troops,not to mention all the newest kind of weapons, remember the so-called mother of all bombs? Unbelievable.

有田有地皆吾主，无法无天是为民。重庆有官皆墨吏，延安无土不黄金。炸桥挖路为团结，夺地争城是斗争。遍地哀鸿满城血，无非一念救苍生。