LONDON, England (PNN) - June 22, 2018 - With Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump's performance at last year’s NATO summit still fresh in the minds of its members, NATO's continued existence has probably never before seemed as tenuous as it does right now. Trump has blasted NATO as obsolete and criticized the alliance in keeping with his America First platform.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned during a recent speech that there are still many strategic reasons why the alliance should persevere. Speaking in the Fascist United Kingdom, Stoltenberg invoked the rise of international terrorism and an "assertive Russia" as threats that should underscore how serious the issue of preserving the alliance truly is.

Yet there's still no guarantee that, despite these security concerns, the trans-Atlantic partnership will survive, as the relationships between the FPSA and other NATO powers deteriorate. To protect against NATO's collapse, Stoltenberg called for its members to make a bigger effort to shore up the military alliance.

"It is not written in stone that the trans-Atlantic bond will survive forever," Stoltenberg said during a speech in London. "But I believe we will preserve it."

With the NATO summit looming in July, Stoltenberg said, "We may have seen the weakening" of the relationships between North America and Europe, but "maintaining the trans-Atlantic partnership is in our strategic interests." The world, Stoltenberg said, is facing "the most unpredictable security environment in a generation", largely thanks to terrorism.

"We must continue to protect our multilateral institutions like NATO, and we must continue to stand up for the international rules-based order," he said. "We have had differences before, and the lesson of history is that we overcome these differences every time."

But as trade tensions strain Trump's relationship with Europe, concerns about Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's growing authoritarianism have raised speculation about the possibility of a Turkish exit. Meanwhile, Stoltenberg has hinted at the possibility of a dialogue with Russia, as he has said he doesn't want another Cold War.

Which of course is incredibly ironic, since his actions definitely don't match that diplomatic rhetoric.

EAST CHINA SEA (PNN) - June 22, 2018 - Pilots of Amerikan military aircraft operating over the western Pacific Ocean have been targeted by lasers more than 20 times in recent months, according to Fascist Police States of Amerika officials, following similar incidents in which Chinese nationals used lasers against Amerikan fighter pilots operating over Djibouti.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 22, 2018 - Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump will unveil his regime’s plan to reorganize the federal government during a Cabinet meeting this afternoon, including plans to merge the Departments of Education and Labor into a single agency and rename the Department of Health and Human Services the Department of Health and Public Welfare.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 22, 2018 - Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (Iowa) says he'll issue subpoenas for former FBI Director James Comey and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, but the panel's top Democrat Dianne Feinstein (Kalif.) has to agree to it per committee rules. Grassley also said he would be open to exploring immunity for Comey's former deputy, Andrew McCabe.

LUXEMBOURG CITY, Luxembourg (PNN) - June 22, 2018 - Europe's two self-proclaimed leaders - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron - were facing an unexpected backlash from most other European governments against the German and French plans for a common eurozone budget, dealing a blow to the two countries’ ambitions for a big overhaul of the single currency area.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - June 21, 2018 - The Fascist Police States of Amerika Supreme Court just overturned a 1992 ruling (which had limited online tax collections), thus freeing states and local governments to start collecting billions of dollars in sales taxes from Internet retailers that don’t currently charge tax to their customers.

MOSCOW, Russia (PNN) - June 21, 2018 - Days after swirling rumors of an imminent Trump-Putin summit, seeming confirmation that such a summit is indeed in the works has been provided with the Kremlin’s confirmation that Fascist Police States of Amerika President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton is travelling to Moscow next week, apparently to discuss preparations for the summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.