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[Rusvesna] When a state wages a war that escalates into a major or very major war, military expenditures are financed from the current state budget, then by increasing military expenditures in the state budget and by increasing taxes, by increasing the state debt and/or inflation - the issuance of money to finance state expenditures.
Some examples from history.
The American Congress during the American Revolution financed military expenditures with congressional notes, which were used to pay for supplies for the army; private money and promissory notes were also used.
Revolutionary France - the most difficult situation with state finances before the revolution. In 1787, the budget expenditures of royal France on interest payments and repayment of the state debt amounted to 49% of all expenses. Another 26% was taken by the army and navy and 6% - by the maintenance of the royal court.
Revolutionary France began printing paper money, and this emission sharply increased inflation. At the same time, the national debt grew, which was eventually simply cancelled by two-thirds by the Thermidorian government.
Napoleon's military expenditures were financed largely by increasing taxes and contributions from the occupied countries of Europe, about 10% of Napoleon's military expenditures were financed by new government loans, the placement of which was extremely difficult after the cancellation of previous government debts. The military budget under Napoleon constituted 67% of all government budget expenditures, and budget debts by 1814 constituted approximately 50% of the budget.
The German government financed military expenses at the beginning of the 20th century by simultaneously issuing (during the war the number of German marks in circulation increased 5 times) and sharply increasing the national debt. After the end of the war, Germany experienced a period of huge hyperinflation and the circulation of private money in addition to the state money.
This list can be continued. Now in many countries of the world in recent months and years, due to military actions in Ukraine and the Middle East, there has been a sharp increase in military budgets, an increase in the emission of national currencies, taxes and government debts.
In the next two weeks, final financial statements will be released in the United States (where the fiscal year ends on September 30), as well as statements for the first three quarters of 2024 in the rest of the world.
An analysis of these financial statements will allow conclusions to be drawn about the financial stability or instability of warring countries and countries that are significantly involved in these wars.
One should not expect any major changes in the US annual budget figures that will appear after September 30, since no major changes in financial, spending or tax policies have occurred in the US in recent months, and financing has been carried out in the mode of three- or six-month financing of the federal budget in the current mode.
That is, practically within the parameters of the 2023 budget, which in turn means an increase in financial problems, an increase in the US national debt, which already amounts to over 35 trillion dollars, an increase in the amount of interest on servicing this national debt to somewhere around 1 trillion US dollars per year with the total amount of all government revenues being around 4.5 trillion dollars per year, which, in turn, means that for the US it is approaching technical bankruptcy in about 8-10 years.
The most interesting data from an analytical point of view should be sought in the data on the execution of the state budget of the State of Israel, which has increased sharply over the past year in terms of military expenditures, not supported by a corresponding increase in income in the context of the declining situation of the Israeli economy associated with the war (a decline in tourism, the withdrawal from the productive sector of about 400 thousand citizens called up for military service, and so on).
Accordingly, the Israeli government sharply increased the size of the national debt, which led to a sharp drop (by two points at once) in the credit rating of the State of Israel according to the rating agency Moody's.
There is no point in analyzing Ukraine’s budget; the country is essentially in a state of technical bankruptcy and is unable to fully pay interest on the national debt or repay the national debt.
The leading countries of Western Europe - England, Germany and France - are not themselves engaged in military action, but they also found themselves in a situation of a sharp increase in the deficit of state budgets and growth of state debt due to the growth of prices for energy, fertilizers, raw materials, as well as due to the huge increase in social spending on migrants.
At the same time, they are still trying to maintain a high level of support for Ukraine, spending their last financial and material resources on a hopeless battle with Russia.
Once the official financial reporting data of these countries appears somewhere in the first or second half of October, it will be possible to conduct precise analyses and draw more precise conclusions, but it can already be said that, since the leaders of all these countries continue to fight or support military actions in Ukraine and the Middle East, they continue to ruin the finances and economies of their countries in favor of unrealistic goals of wars instead of trying to stop them.
The main objective of such analyses is usually to forecast how long the pre-war financial strength of the warring countries will last, how long they will be able to finance intensive military actions. In the countries we are considering, this financial strength is clearly declining.
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RedState: But Walz didn't settle down. He continued to implode as the debate went on. He wasn't able to give any kind of a reasonable explanation for lying about being in Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre when he was actually in Nebraska at the time. He blamed being a "knucklehead" for his comment. Really not a selling point to voters: "Vote for me because I'm a knucklehead."
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beware stolen election. stalin: i dont need the voters i have the counters.
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#2, maybe he seems dumb because he is trying to defend the indefensible. I mean, it must be very difficult to explain the fantastically stupid Democrat policies.
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He walked into the debate on a news day where everyone was discussing his Hong Kong lie and he was not prepared to just say he misspoke. He’s a dummy, but I would like to see him put a light bulb into his mouth just to confirm what I suspect.
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I was surprised to find he is as insufferable as she is.
Like Biden, yet somehow with less talent and height. Complete spaz, especially in contrast with Vance.
Seriously Minnesota...WTF? And Marketing? America's Dad is an old man who yells a lot, constantly lies, and can't stop talking about murdering babies? That's a hot take.
Depending on how you keep score, he would contradict himself 2, 3, or sometimes 4 times within a monologue, and over multiple monologues. Towards the end I was laughing at how he thought he had taken the stage and was Winning! but Vance was just letting him talk.
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Depending on how you keep score, he would contradict himself 2, 3, or sometimes 4 times within a monologue, and over multiple monologues. Towards the end I was laughing at how he thought he had taken the stage and was Winning! but Vance was just letting him talk.
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"Not sure he's as dumb as they may think he is. Cunning and devious, yes. Dumb, possibly not."
Walz is a lying bastard, and wouldn't have made it this far if he wasnt good at it, and good at the playing the game of politics.
Fully heartedly agree there Besoeker.
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"Not sure he's as dumb as they may think he is. Cunning and devious, yes. Dumb, possibly not."
Walz is a lying bastard, and wouldn't have made it this far if he wasnt good at it, and good at the playing the game of politics.
Fully heartedly agree there Besoeker.
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Perhaps the distinction my friend Besoeker underlines is clever, that is to say quick to understand the dynamics of a situation, more so than understanding the content of the issue. People who are clever rarely judge the content of an issue, but rather focus on obtaining a winning outcome for their interests.
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Wasn't smart enough to debate prep and practice, going off to play grab ass with Beto at a college game instead, and counting on the gals to carry him.
I'm sure there was a dynamo trying to spin his answers in real time, but his contradictions were confusing the gals to the point he got clarifications, like professionally annoyed "give us something to work with".
Like going to his 'middle class creds' against someone who came from biting poverty? From someone whose political career has obviously been groomed? Trying to give an effective gonna punch you stare at a dude a head taller and twenty years younger get outta here with that.
As a MN refugee, this is my take. MN was filled with reasonable people, many of whom were farmers and blue collar - the old Minnesota Nice thing. The DFL (Dem Farmers and Laborers AKA Democratic Machine) gained support by claiming to represent them and finding issues "nice, liberal (in the non-pejorative sense) people" would support, like civil rights and school funding and healthcare. In the meantime they got a boost from Obama et al by acquiring a Somali voting block to add to the already large inner city welfare rolls. This allowed them to elect people like Omar, Ellison, Franken and Walz. Once they got control of both houses of the legislature (by 1 vote) and the governorship, they literally ripped the heart out of the state in one legislative session. This is exactly what is going to happen when the Dems cheat their way into control of the White House, House and Senate. You've been warned.
[AmericanThinker] The United Nations Organization opened its doors in 1945, and by 1989, the Security Council and General Assembly together voted on 870 resolutions dealing with the "Arab-Israeli" conflict—as it was commonly known in those decades. When I worked on a research project commissioned by the Office of the late Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Shamir, I read and tabulated every one of them.
In this period, the Security Council "condemned" Israel," its highest rebuke, 49 times. Sometimes Israel was "vigorously condemned," "deplored," or "strongly deplored." No Arab state was ever so chastised.
In the same period, the General Assembly "condemned," "deplored," or otherwise castigated Israel 321 times. Again, no Arab state was ever so judged. The aggregate number of individual state votes against Israel in the UN’s first 44 years came to 55,642 votes.
For the UN’s first quarter-century, it did not issue a single resolution referencing "Palestinians." In those UN decades, there were no "Palestinian" on anyone’s lips.
The "Palestinians" made their UN debut three years after the Six-Day War of 1967. Post-war, the five months of heated debate in both chambers climaxed on November 22 with UN Security Council Resolution 242, which would shape the conflict for decades to come. And this text, too, said nothing about any "Palestinians."
The germ of this notional nation originally came from the Chairman of the Arab League of States, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. In a 1959 meeting, he raised the idea of rebranding the mixed bag of migrant workers called "the Arab refugees"—as they had been called for ten years —into "Palestinian refugees," even though there was nothing Palestinian about them. (No, it was not the KGB that created the "Palestinian" identity).
His model was the then-ongoing, five-year bloody terror rebellion in Algeria against the French (1954-62), which he supported. There, the Muslims had the brains to abandon their religious jihadi vocabulary, which would not win them support in France, and, instead, adopted the identity of patriotic, anti-imperialist freedom fighters. After WWII, there were scores of such colonial uprisings.
After that, it took another decade for the lie of "Palestinians" to gestate. Golda Meir was their inadvertent midwife.
Two years after Israel’s miraculous victory, on June 17, 1969, during an interview with the London Sunday Times, Israel’s new Prime Minister went to war against the growing fashion of speaking of Israel’s enemies not as "the Arabs" but as "the Palestinians." Golda said, "There never was such a nation," causing the Jew-haters to exclaim, "How dare she deny the existence of the Palestinians!" And the rest is history.
...The "Palestinian" national identity is a verbal hologram; that is, something that looks like it is there, but really is not. The enemy is Islam. The "Palestinian" identity is as empty as the Palestinian National Museum was on the day it opened in Bir Zeit in 2016. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony, guests were ushered into the brand-new, $25 million building whose every corridor, wall, and gallery was empty of any objets d’art produced by "Palestinian" artists and artisans in the "Palestinian" style.
And when journalists asked the curator, "Where are the exhibits?" He said they were being made abroad, and there was a delay in delivery.
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[IsraelNationalNews] The world loves dead Jews. They all come to Yad Vashem to shed a tear and lay a wreath in the same way that they travel elsewhere to see a leaning tower, a statue with a torch, a coliseum, and a large clock that plays the opening melody in "Peter Pan." They love dead Jews. They remember them, memorialize them.
And their beautiful thing is that most of them don’t even have to come to Jerusalem to lay wreaths and shed tears for dead Jews because they already have murdered so many Jews themselves, for centuries, that they can save the airfare and lay wreaths and shed tears at one or another Jewish cemetery or Holocaust museum in their own backyards or along the Rhine or Seine.
The world has less patience for live Jews. They mask their words, and most Jews are too oblivious to realize that many of their "friends" actually despise them. So many Jews buy the baloney. In a world of diplomacy, sensible people simply do not say "I hate you people and want you all dead." They are more elegant and speak in subtleties that only skilled and trained interpreters and translators can help other Jews better understand.
When a British person wants to say "car trunk," he says "boot." When he wants to say "elevator," he says "lift." When he wants to say "truck," he says "lorry." See? It’s that way.
When a New Yorker says "Your mother," he is meaning "I respectfully disagree with you." A Texan says it differently:"That dog won’t hunt." When an Israeli says "Al lo davar" (eh, it’s nothing, really!), he is saying "One day, you will make it up to me."
And when a non-Jew wants to see Jews dead, or — at best — does not care one way or another, he says: "It’s time for Israel to enter into a CEASEFIRE."
Read old newspapers. View old videos. In all of recorded history, no non-Jew ever asked Jews or their antagonists to enter into a ceasefire when Jews were losing. Never happened. Not during the Holocaust. Not during any of Israel’s wars. Not when Jewish kids get pummeled and abused at American colleges. When Jews are losing, everyone turns the other way. Many are happy and want the Jews dead. Many others — not just a few, but many others, good people — feel bad for the Jews, pray to their gods for the Jews, and even teach their kids that it is wrong to beat up and murder Jews because Jews are kind-of similar to everyone else.
But when Jews are winning, as when Israel’s Irgun, Lechi, and Haganah — ultimately the Palmach and Tzahal (IDF) — emerged capable of kicking out the British and then defeating the seven invading Arab armies, it was then that the United Nations sent Count Folke Bernadotte to bring about a CEASEFIRE. He came with a beautiful plan: the Arabs would get almost everything except for two Jews’ backyards, a patio, and some sand. Haifa port would be internationalized. Also Lod airport. Also Jerusalem — all of it. After a brief interregnum, it would be a matter of international oversight as to whether any more Jews even could enter the country any more. In other words, Jerusalem, Haifa port, and the international airport at Lod would end up under Arab sovereignty, with a ban on future Jewish immigration even into the truncated Jewish section.
All he wanted was a CEASEFIRE. The Lechi did not agree. So they did not cease firing — and, G-d bless the late Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir and his men — on him. That problem solved.
By 1967, it was war again. Early word was that Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Egyptian air force were destroying Israel from one side while Syria was massacring Jews from the north. The news of the slaughter was so enticing that King Hussein of Jordan came in for the ride. In New York, the United Nations knew only what the Arabs were proclaiming to the media.
Only Chaim Herzog, then Israel’s U.N. ambassador, knew the Arab governments all were lying, as they always do. (Remember the denials recently, assertions that Mohammed Deif had not been eliminated? And that Haniyah had not been in the house? Or that Nasrallah survived? They always lie until they can’t hide it anymore.) So Ambassador (later President) Herzog kept the actual truth of Israel’s stunning successes on the ground a secret at the U.N., a task particularly easy to perform.
Why? Because Israel knew the U.N. would not call for a ceasefire as long as they believed the Arabs were driving the Jews into the Sea. And Israel wanted extra time to keep winning, to keep driving the Arabs back, and to emerge (despite the perpetually politically cowardly Dayan) with all of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria and the Golan and the Sinai and Gaza. Indeed, the moment "the cat was let out of the bag," and the world realized that Israel was winning and had reached Har HaBayit (the Temple Mount), the Security Council raced to demand a... CEASEFIRE.
The same in 1973. Remember? It seemed Sadat had taken Israel by surprise on Yom Kippur and was marching on Jerusalem, while Syria was racing to Jerusalem from the north, and brave Dayan was experiencing a nervous breakdown and Golda Meir was pocketing her cyanide tablets. Remember? No one called for a ceasefire then.
But, then, Ariel Sharon — when he was a national military hero, before he became a corrupted politician — built that pontoon bridgehead across the Suez, and started threatening to march toward Cairo, and Israel suddenly had Egypt’s Third Army totally surrounded for slaughter. Remember? Suddenly, Kissinger — the Bernie Sanders of his day, other side of the political aisle but same kind of Jew, brother of another mother — was there demanding a CEASEFIRE. Rescue the Egyptian Third Army to kill the Jews another day and lay the groundwork for giving Sadat (i) the Etzion air base, (ii) the Alma oil fields, (iii) the Abu Rudeis oil fields, and all the rest of Sinai.
And so it is, and so it was, and so it will be. Half a century later, Yair Lapid, a talk show host without a high school degree, was giving precious Israeli gas resources and territory to the, uh, late Hassan Nasrallah. (Assistedy by Naftali Bennett.)
When Macron or England’s Keir Starmer or David Cameron or America’s Joe Biden or Kamala Harris or Rashida Tlaib calls for a CEASEFIRE, they are not jockeying for a Nobel Peace Prize. Rather, they are sounding the clarion call, the shofar sound to the world: "The Jews are winning! We have to stop them! CEASEFIRE!"
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[IsraelNationalNews] A saying falsely attributed to an ancient Chinese curse states, "May you live in interesting times." But nothing was stated about exciting times. Israelis are experiencing both following the Iranian attack consisting of nearly 200 ballistic missiles this evening. Thankfully, the vast majority of these dangerous missiles were intercepted and there are no reports of direct casualties incurred, a fact which cannot be said for Iran’s Hezbollah proxy.
Two weeks ago today, the dismantling of the world’s most powerful and dangerous terrorist organization began with the explosion of thousands of pagers Hezbollah distributed to its operatives. It is unclear how many terrorists were killed, but thousands were wounded, with many losing eyes, hands, and other body parts.
Beyond the casualties inflicted on Hezbollah, the disruption to the terror group’s communications network and the psychological impact were even more devastating. Hezbollah was reeling, cut off at the knees, and Israel had not launched a single aircraft yet.
The next day, the same thing happened to Hezbollah’s walkie-talkies, killing and maiming even more of its terrorists and proving that no Hezbollah communication devices were safe.
’Operation Grim Beeper,’ as this intelligence coup was dubbed online, was a success of historic proportions. Never had so many terrorists been targeted at once with so little collateral damage. Never had a terrorist organization been so thoroughly compromised and humiliated.
Of course, the usual detractors tried to downplay the impact of the beeper and walkie-talkie blasts and to criticize Israel for it. Squad members like Alexandira Ocasio-Cortez tried unsuccessfully to argue that it violated international law, while others claimed that the apparent fact that a small number of civilians were affected, a tiny percentage of the Hezbollah terrorists who were killed and maimed, delegitimized the entire operation.
The New York Times published a piece citing so-called "experts" who claimed that the blasts were merely a tactical success with no long-term strategic benefit. This might have been true if Israel listened to the US and French governments and did not act to take advantage of Hezbollah’s weakened state. Fortunately, Israel ignored their orders.
On Friday, September 20, the leaders of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force were meeting together in Beirut to plan an October 7-style invasion and massacre in northern Israel. These terror leaders were forced to meet in person due to the destruction of so many communication devices and Hezbollah’s inability to trust whatever communications devices remained to them. This proved to be their undoing, as an Israeli airstrike took out 12 Radwan commanders, including its highest-ranking leader, Ibrahim Aqil, a terrorist who directed the 1983 bombing of the US barracks in Beirut.
From then on, Hezbollah’s leadership has been systematically erased from existence. Ibrahim Qubaisi, commander of Hezbollah’s rocket array and mastermind of the 2000 terrorist attack on Mount Dov in which three IDF soldiers were ambushed, murdered, and abducted. Muhammad Hussein Srour, the commander of Hezbollah's aerial unit. Ali Karaki, the commander of Hezbollah’s southern front. And many more.
Then, on Friday, Israel caught the biggest fish of all. Hassan Nasrallah, the monster who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, finally got his just deserts when he was killed in his own headquarters in the Beirut area.
As former White House adviser Jared Kushner noted,"Over the past six weeks or so, Israel has eliminated as many terrorists on the US list of wanted terrorists as the US has done in the last 20 years."
While Hezbollah’s leadership was being eliminated, its arsenal was being destroyed as well. Since the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Hezbollah had amassed 150,000 rockets and missiles, including thousands of precision-guided missiles, as well as thousands of attack drones. In thousands of airstrikes, the IAF has destroyed much of this capability, from destroying ballistic missiles hidden in people’s homes to warehouses full of missile launchers near Beirut’s International Airport.
The result of all of this, the destruction of Hezbollah’s communications network, the elimination of Nasrallah and nearly the entire senior Hezbollah leadership, and the degradation of its rocket arsenal, is that Hezbollah has been unable to carry out the threat the world feared for years of launching thousands of rockets a day at Israel and causing hundreds or even thousands of casualties.
There have been daily barrages, as there have been since the October 7 massacre, but the only Israeli fatality has been a 17-year-old boy who was tragically killed in a traffic accident that resulted from the Red Alert sirens. Thank God, there has been no repeat of the Majdal Shams Massacre in July, when 12 Druze children were murdered in a Hezbollah rocket attack. The number of rockets fired each day has been in the low hundreds, not the thousands and the IDF is destroying them.
Military historians will be studying the IDF’s successes in the last half of September 2024 for centuries to come. To inflict this much damage on a military force as strong as Hezbollah in such a short time without a single boot on the ground is unheard of. To accomplish so much without suffering a single direct casualty is miraculous. Hezbollah was more powerful than many nations just two weeks ago, and now it is crippled in more ways than one.
...Unfortunately, while Israel has been making history, the American government has been attempting to freeze history and return to the status quo of October 6, 2023.
At every step, the Biden Administration has opposed Israel’s acts of self-defense in Lebanon. The absorption of more than 8,000 rockets in less than a year, having more than 60,000 civilians evacuated from their homes for 12 months, and having 12 children murdered by Hezbollah is apparently not enough for the US government to acknowledge that the Hezbollah threat need to be dealt with. From the start, America has been attempting to save Hezbollah from destruction, never mind that the terrorist organization has had the blood of hundreds of Americans on its hands. In absurd defiance of logic and common sense, America’s actions over the last two weeks have not been to support the bringing to justice of terrorists on whose heads the US has placed bounties worth millions of dollars for their roles in the mass murder of Americans, but to save the lives of its enemies.
For the last 30 years, Iran has been attempting to surround Israel in a "ring of fire" of terrorist proxies, all ready to sacrifice the civilians of their host countries to destroy Israel and to launch massive assaults on the Jewish State if Israel takes any action against Iran’s nuclear program. Now Israel has the opportunity to eliminate the two linchpins in this ring of fire, Hamas and Hezbollah, and to ensure that neither can reemerge as a threat.
Keep making history, Israel.
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Ha! Operation Grim Beeper -- I never heard that. Fitting.
[PJ Media via Insty] How chaotic is the situation for the Islamists, really? Iranian cleric, Mostafa Karami, who regularly serves as a mouthpiece for the mullahs' regime, said on Iranian state television this weekend, "Considering the Zionists' history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army."
Nasrallah was killed by Jewish genies? OK, boss.
Tehran is torn over how to respond. The New York Times reported on Sunday that "fissures have opened within the Iranian government over how to respond to [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah’s killing, with conservatives arguing for a forceful response and the moderates, led by Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, calling for restraint... state television, run by [his opponent in the election] Jalili’s affiliates, called for Iran to strike Israel, in open defiance of Ayatollah Khamenei’s caution. "
Jared Kushner — one of the two peacemakers behind the Trump administration's historic Abraham Accords — posted a thoughtful essay to X on Saturday urging Israel to "finish the job." He explained that "The reason why [Iran's] nuclear facilities have not been destroyed, despite weak air defense systems, is because Hezbollah has been a loaded gun pointed at Israel." I dream of Jeannie
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As long as their counterintelligence force is on a genie hunt the real human Mossad moles are safe...
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Israeli has said: Economy including oil and power, potentially nuclear stuff although likely not unless Iran attacks again, assassination of individuals that need it and Tehran (city) to be dealt with.
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[PJ Media via Insty] How chaotic is the situation for the Islamists, really? Iranian cleric, Mostafa Karami, who regularly serves as a mouthpiece for the mullahs' regime, said on Iranian state television this weekend, "Considering the Zionists' history of subjugating genies, they carry out many of their missions through this means, and demons are their secret army."
