Tariffs and sky high audio prices.

nonoise, you are right.
There is that seduction of the evil, some are very responsive to it.
My relative died fighting them in Europe.

"....now, wouldn't it be nice if the populace (the world) would support and fund such important purchases...call it the environmental version of a stock buyback, to purchase large blocks of land to take it off the market forever."

Ted Turner does something like that.

Inna, our paths overlap. Nothing like a good Veen Diagram.  By the way, did you notice the awkward silence?

Those who have no real skin in the game can afford the price of the armchair warrior for (fill in the blank) cause. From the basement of their parents homes and the infernal pits of their imaginings (god forbid) they can rant, rave, and pontificate to their hearts desires, as long as they follow the script laid out for them, like a black and white coloring book with the prescribed colors laid out for them. 

Color outside the lines and they lose membership as it's a rigid formula they must adhere to. That's the basis for authoritarianism.  Anyone with a passing interest can simply look it up. 

Ignore it all and you'll just repeat it. For some, it's the easier way to go through life.

All the best,
Nonoise

"...there was a 75th Anniversary of allied forces landing in Normandy two days ago. That was a bloody and decisive campaign."

There was a 75th anniversary of Monte Cassino just two or three weeks earlier. For some reason, that one is rarely mentioned.

Tariffs and globalization aside, it included many countries. From Poland, across India, to New Zealand and a few more to the South and West and in between. If it were not for Roger Waters, even Anzio would have a hard time finding its way to an average audiophile home, it seems.

Nonoise, it's a good way to put it.
So many Chinese people died in the war too. Japanese were savage, maybe at times much worse than Nazi. Now they are kind of nice making excellent steel and transistors and transformers and enjoying American jazz. I think, America should watch them all, there might be a repetition that must be prevented. Europe is quite turbulent at present.
Maybe "awkward silence" is not a bad sign, maybe what we are saying gives them a thinking regardless of what they might post next.