« on: January 20, 2019, 05:10:08 pm »
Trent Telenko presents a very interesting interpretation of President Trump’s strategy in confronting the Democrats over funding for border wall construction at the Chicago Boyz Blog. I had no idea what a Xanatos Gambit is, and was worried that some important lesson from Greek mythology had eluded me, until I read at the end of this long and interesting post that Xanatos is a Disney character from a 1990s television show, Garagoyles, “voiced by Star Trek actor Jonathan Frakes… very loosely based on Donald Trump.â€
In short, Telenko explains, “a ‘Xanatos Gambit’ is a plan for which all foreseeable outcomes benefit the creator — including ones that superficially appear to be failure.â€
This diagram, drawn from the TV series and using language from it, explains the decision tree analysis:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/01/trump_playing_the_xanatos_gambit_with_shutdown_strategy.html
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