I'm sorry about my attitude. I don't think I'm pretentious, I'm just unusually well informed. And here on this sea of disinformation, I'm usually right. With people saying oh Armenia didn't want to fight, and yet Pashinyan was giving our long speeches and screaming on the podium like hitler, trying to rally the volunteers and troops. Giving troops a send off in yerevan as they were going to the their deaths to the front. Sending his wife tot he front. lol and some here say Armenian army was not involved in the fight. lol who was involved? The non existent artsakh? come on.
I would say that 2 million Bosnians who had a UN arms embargo against them and were attacked by every single one of their neighbours, which number 16 million people at the time, and survived, and won, and got their country. On top of arms embargo, they had food embargo and no way to get food from outside. 1kg of flour was like 50 Deutchmarks at the time. I mean what we were up against you cant compare to gaza, or anything. maybe you can compare it to a large warsaw ghetto. Any civilian captured was just executed. It was a war of extermination. 16 million vs 2 million people one had no weapons and other had everything.
Having come out of that, I think thats a pretty organically self sustaining country wouldn't you say? No foreign aid made a difference to the outcome. only Pakistani and Iranian arms helped lower the death toll. But death tolls in wars are academic and soon forgotten about anyway.
So we don't need eternal support to survive. But it's nice to have powerful friends. makes life easier.