War is changing. That's not too surprising, since war has always been changing. New offensive weapons appear, giving one army superiority over another. Such advances can win battles and even whole wars. New defensive weapons are developed to counter the threat, so even newer offensive weapons are then developed. The cycle never stops, really. And this has been true since the beginning of time, so it really shouldn't be surprising that it's happening in a big way once again.

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Let's begin this week with a stunner of a statement -- one that you might not have noticed in the news: Donald Trump apparently now wants to sell weapons to China.

The mainstream media has been doing a pathetically bad job of covering Trump for over a decade now, but you would think that news of this magnitude would have broken through. You'd be wrong about that, for the most part. The fact that the president of the United States is even contemplating selling weapons to China, at any other point in modern history, would have been a blockbuster of a story. All the other politicians would be weighing in on the subject (hopefully, to denounce it as a monumentally stupid idea). Pundits would be talking about it for weeks. But it was such a minor story that it appeared as a tiny blip and then sank like a stone beneath all the other idiocy emanating from the White House.

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So the Senate has left Washington, to head out on the campaign trail for the rest of this month. Before they scarpered off, Republicans tried to pass a few bills that were no more than performative -- they seemed like they were doing something to address a problem, but when you actually examined the details, they really weren't. Democrats denied the Republicans some wins that they doubtlessly would have made a big deal of back home to the voters (but that wouldn't have lived up to the hype).

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