Why one does not march on Moscow--parallel historical
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Sony Thăng
@nxt888
There is a reason Vietnam’s resistance lasted as long as it did against as much as it faced. Part of that reason is geography and strategy and the specific genius of its military leadership.
But part of it, a part that doesn’t appear in most military analyses, is that Vietnam never fully lost access to its own story. The story of resistance to the Chinese. A thousand years of it.
The story of the Trưng Sisters, who led a revolt against Chinese occupation in 40 AD. The story of Trần Hưng Đạo, who repelled three Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century. The story of Lê Lợi, who defeated the Ming dynasty. The story of Quang Trung, who crushed the Qing army in 1789.
The story of a people who had been fighting for their own existence since before the word "colonialism" existed. That story is not just history. It is instruction. It tells a people what they are capable of. It tells them the situation is not new. It tells them the outsider has been expelled before and can be expelled again.
A colonizer that successfully erases that story wins something more valuable than territory. It wins the inside of the mind. Vietnam’s story survived. That survival was not accidental.
