Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Afterburn podcast and another installation of the lowdown.

I am Flashman Fay. I'm here with Toad Williamson and Zero Fox.

We're going to talk about a lot of the happenings going on in the world right now,

from the transition of power from a lame duck president to a predecessor,

to Who's Who in the Syrian Zoo,

and then finishing up with President Biden's trip to Angola this week

and what it means for great power competition.

So when we kind of look at the transition, the peaceful transition of power from one president to another,

you have the lame duck period from November to January.

And if you think that the transition of power and people making decisions or president, lame dog presence making decisions that are going to have significant impacts

on their predecessors presidency being an exception or just being a new thing

between president Biden and foreign president and president,

president elect Trump, you are incorrect.

It is actually the norm throughout history from all the the way back in Jefferson's time to when Lincoln was nominated, was elected to president,

as the president, apologies, when President Buchanan saw that the secession of the seven states on the day of the election was unconstitutional but not illegal,

and his passive approach to that conflict exacerbated the issues of the Civil War.

Now fast-forwarding all the way to Lyndon Johnson, electing not to run for re-election,

halting the bombing North Vietnam and what that meant for President Nixon.

And then what we're seeing today with President Biden electing to utilize long range missiles,

authorized long range missile attacks from Ukraine into Russia using American assets and what

that potentially means for the future.

But again, this is not new.

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