Nor do the resources
with which they were fought
come out of nowhere.
The early Crusades were fought
with borrowed Christian money,
supplemented by the sale of indulgences
and requests/bequests for the church
to pray so many times for the dead.
But from 1180 onward
the money for further Crusades,
and other battles in the same pursuit,
were financed with Jewish money,
By order of The Vatican
and the Second Lateran Council
Christians could no longer lend each other money,
at least not if they expected repayment with interest,
not even to fight Christian wars
waged by Christian governments
as fought by mercenary soldiers
since no government of that time
had anything like a standing army.
Thus it was when William of Orange
invaded England in 1688,
his soldiers were Swedish mercenaries
whose labour in war was paid for
by William borrowing from wealthy Dutch Jews,
the only people permitted finance to support
the usurping of the leadership of another country.
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