The evil and mismanagement of Jeff Bezos aside, Ukraine is suffering from the same problem that Gaza is after Trump’s election: people have other things that are pressing and closer to home. Just or unjust, that’s the reality. The people of, say… Minneapolis? Ukraine isn’t on their minds. Nor Gaza.
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
That’s not coincidental, by the way. There’s an intentional synergy at play between the domestic benefits the regime sees when they turn their oppression inward, and the benefits abroad. When the people at home have a boot on their neck, it’s hard for them to protest what you’re doing overseas.
Feb 4, 2026 17:49And so, yeah, Jeff Bezos absolutely fucked WaPo and everyone who works there. And he may or may not have meant to run it into the ground. And this is in no way a criticism of WaPo’s hardworking and dedicated journalists abroad, but this is the ecosystem they’ve been forced to work in.
One where their audience — even if it were so inclined — can’t spare as much bandwidth for Kyiv or Gaza as it used to.
Mismanagement aside, Bezos played a huge role in that.
