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Trump playing the ‘Xanatos Gambit’ with shutdown strategy
American Thinker ^ | January 20,2019 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/20/2019 7:38:17 AM PST by skimbell

Recall that President Trump’s number one priority was to reverse the alarming decline in military readiness, which he (correctly, in my view) regarded as extremely dangerous, possibly tempting external enemies into a military confrontation in the belief that the US military would be unable to respond effectively

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Interesting (and plausable) take on what Trumps end game in this matter may well be.

Link to original article-a bit long but (IMO) worth the time.

If accurate, DJT could be playing chess in an unknown dimension.

1 posted on 01/20/2019 7:38:17 AM PST by skimbell
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With the wall built it stands as a testament to the will of the people and of Trump and a hemorrhoid and a boil on the a## of all rats for the future, this is what they don’t want, A REMINDER


2 posted on 01/20/2019 7:41:52 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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The idiot Chuck Todd said this morning that “millions” are affected by the shutdown...

What shutdown??? I haven’t noticed anything....


3 posted on 01/20/2019 7:42:19 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

like your PC definition


4 posted on 01/20/2019 7:47:16 AM PST by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: Dont tread and Live

Thanks...


5 posted on 01/20/2019 7:47:57 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: skimbell

3D² chess at the very least.


6 posted on 01/20/2019 7:50:18 AM PST by moovova
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What the hell is a ‘Xanatos’? Some kind of Pfizer product?


7 posted on 01/20/2019 7:51:09 AM PST by Sirius Lee (In God We Trust, In Trump We MAGA)
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To: Sirius Lee
What the hell is a ‘Xanatos’? Some kind of Pfizer product? Xanatos Gambit - TV Tropes https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/XanatosGambit A Xanatos Gambit is a plan for which all foreseeable outcomes benefit the creator — including ones that superficially appear to be failure. The … ‎Xanatos Speed Chess · ‎Morton's Fork · ‎XanatosGambit/Real Life · ‎Gargoyles
8 posted on 01/20/2019 7:54:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Liberals//GOPe's 2019 Strategy, mantra, plan = 'No Borders, No Walls, No USA at All!'!)
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To: skimbell

He is also fighting the impeachment battle on this by breaking the Democrats unity.


9 posted on 01/20/2019 7:55:17 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: skimbell

I have said for a long time. Trump plays three dimensional chess while his opponents ( MSM,Dems, Establishment Rinos) all play old man checkers in the park, and they are not even very good at that game so he aces or skunks them every time. He’s playing a game of attrition and that wall will be his testimony!


10 posted on 01/20/2019 7:59:13 AM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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Trump isn’t doing anything fancy. It’s just that the left and NeverTrumpers (but I repeat myself) do not understand the concept of Project Management. Trump might be the best Project Manager on this rock.

He has decades of experience. He announces what project he wants to do, planning for it (cost, time, resource availability), executing it, measuring it for quality and closing it. He has successfully done this quite a few times over the last two years and the opposition has no idea how he is managing to do it.

You know how Trump is successful? Anytime he completes a project he releases the people who were instrumental in assuring the projects success.


11 posted on 01/20/2019 8:02:09 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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“The idiot Chuck Todd said this morning that “millions” are affected by the shutdown.”

This partial shutdown is excellent. Many of us that run businesses like the fact that the parasitic agencies and courts will have less money for harassment.

Trump will need to tweak this because food stamps will run out. But, if we do have turmoil and millions affected, that would be an emergency and Trump would need an emergency order to move money around. Of course, an emergency order could be broad and include the wall and such an order would not have a severability clause so that a judge would have to strike the whole thing down.

But, after binge watching the Godfather the other night, I sometimes wish Trump woukd just take care of business.


12 posted on 01/20/2019 8:04:05 AM PST by grumpygresh (Tout ou rien. Is this the Rubicon year?)
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To: Grampa Dave

Fried liver attack?


13 posted on 01/20/2019 8:27:18 AM PST by BipolarBob (Occasional-Cortex " Just because I don't know what Armageddon means, it's not the end of the world".)
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To: skimbell

Trump is gambling that the Dems don’t take him up on his offer and his base turns his back on him for allowing Congress to lie to We the People. The 1986 act was promised as a one time amnesty. Adult We the People made our concessions in 1986 and expect that promise to be fulfilled.

Wall
eVerify
Birthright citizenship
Chain migration
Lottery
Visa abuse
Pelosi’s national security clearance


14 posted on 01/20/2019 8:46:17 AM PST by RideForever
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Military readiness being hacked by the constant attrition warfare of the GWOT and dog and pony shows for NATO.


15 posted on 01/20/2019 8:47:34 AM PST by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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What’s a Xanatos ? I see this term or expression being bandied about by “See how smart I am” so called journalists in a sentence without further explaining why it applies to their story. The same applies to the use of acronyms when used in a sentence without explaining later what that acronym stands for in their presentation.


16 posted on 01/20/2019 9:24:50 AM PST by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L,J,Keslin posting here for the record)
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To: EQAndyBuzz

“You know how Trump is successful? Anytime he completes a project he releases the people who were instrumental in assuring the projects success.”

Clarification please. I read this as Trump lets go of the people who were instrumental in completing the project and starts with new players on the next project. Is that what you mean?


17 posted on 01/20/2019 9:34:58 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: mosesdapoet

This is just more Thomas lifson nonsense. He apparently gets paid to write this stuff.


18 posted on 01/20/2019 9:44:54 AM PST by Okeydoker
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Yes it is. It’s typical project management.


19 posted on 01/20/2019 9:46:46 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("We The People" have turned into "You, The Subjects.")
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