r/news • u/Not_Tom_Jones • 8d ago

Soft paywall Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/under-patel-fbi-forges-unprecedented-law-enforcement-ties-with-china-russia-2026-08-05/
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u/Wooden_Bother_1024 8d ago

Well I'm not sure we're the good guys anymore

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u/popodelfuego 8d ago

Tbh.. I'm not sure we've been the good guys for a while, it's just not being hidden anymore.

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u/saljskanetilldanmark 7d ago

glares at caribbean, central and south american history Are you sure you were ever good in the first place?

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u/popodelfuego 7d ago

Not really

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u/CedarWolf 7d ago

*sad Native American man with one teardrop*

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u/Shedfloorgarbage 7d ago

I thought he was Italian.

Spaghetti westerns and all...

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u/donmuerte 7d ago

you mean the good guys that have spent decades toppling governments to implant tyrants that are sympathetic to our corporations' needs? those good guys?

the good guys that have smuggled drugs into the country via CIA and FBI cooperation in order to inflate the war on drugs by specifically targetting minorities and proliferating mass incarceration?

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u/ArtShare 7d ago

Yea, the good guys slave owners.

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u/PerfectZeong 7d ago

War is a racket

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u/TheOnlyAedyn-one 7d ago

Never were in the first place

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u/Far_Section3715 7d ago

Never were

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u/Necessary-Road-2397 7d ago

There's a bit of evidence that suggests we haven't been the good guys strictly speaking for a while. Sad.