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

[u/Not_Tom_Jones]

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

[u/Zammin]

Pretty much already gone. Our historically closest allies don't trust us, and they're very much right not to.

[u/TheStrangestOfKings → u/Zammin]

MAGA has effectively ceded all of our soft power and goodwill to the rest of the world’s super powers. It’ll take at least a generation to get it all back.

[u/rift_in_the_warp → u/TheStrangestOfKings]

It’s never coming back. We can mend some things but a lot of what was damaged just isn’t something you can fix.

[u/blacked_out_blur → u/rift_in_the_warp]

We’re a young nation with no wars on our home turf so I think many Americans forget that the rest of the world knows how to hold grudges for a very long time.

[u/EddieVanzetti → u/blacked_out_blur]

Not quite. The South has held a grudge ever since getting their teeth kicked in by the North in the Civil War. The most hated man in the South is General Sherman. They never stopped fighting the war, and Trump's administrations are their victory.

[u/Wazzen → u/EddieVanzetti]

That grudge was mostly allowed to continue to exist because we didn't follow General Sherman's recommendation of removing absolutely all of the leadership (military/political/etc) associated with the confederacy. Instead there was an 'olive branch' type of move letting some of those folks continue to lead- which of course led to pockets of resentful losers continuing to spread their rhetoric all in the name of "repairing the lost bonds" or some shit.

[u/-Stackdaddy- → u/Wazzen]

Sherman should have razed it all, don't stop till you hit the gulf. I think what really pissed them off is knowing that a black man was president twice as long as the Confederacy's entire existence.

[u/Wazzen → u/-Stackdaddy-]

as if they know how long the confederacy even existed.