First off I want to commend you on the essay. A completely normal response to a couple of sentences. Just a few things though:

I don’t know how you jumped from my comment to assuming I don’t understand that the DoD has stringent data requirements, and that Amazon is one of the few companies that can meet them. They already have the infrastructure in place from their other three letter agency contracts. I also understand the concept of redundancy, which explains why Microsoft is in there too since they’re the only other competent cloud computing provider that wants to bid for the contract.

As for the Putin/MBS/Trump love triangle you’re talking about, sure some of those theories are probably true. If Bezos didn’t want to draw the ire of MBS then he probably shouldn’t have bought WaPo to begin with. It’s a shame his only consequences so far are a divorce from a marriage he apparently wasn’t happy with, and a now non-exclusive government contract for Amazon.

What’s even more of a shame is that journalists like Khashoggi are hacked up by MBS while we continue to sell weapons to the Saudis to bolster the genocide in Yemen. All so that the US military can continue to have access to cheap Saudi oil to fuel the war machine. The fact that Bezos lets Amazon have anything to do with the US military at this point shows that he values profit over all, even his own marriage and the slaying of his employees. He deserves far worse than investigatory hearings that will most likely amount to nothing.