Conversations with Armenian friends tonight, and one said to, all the Armenians you see posting online are in the diaspora or Yerevan. You don't see any Karabakhtsis online. They're just in the trenches, doing their duty, as they always expected to. They will all die fighting.
This is not a rah-rah talking point, nation of warriors or something. It's just a different mindset there, in Karabakh and in Syunik. No one you meet there is even fazed by losses, or the war. Losing means they're gone anyways. A battle for Stepanakert would be so, so bloody.
None of this is to downgrade the contributions of other Armenians, just saying that Karabakhtsis (and Syunik people) are a special breed.
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