Some are debating why Syriza appeared to have no plan B when it became clear that their strategy of trying to gain significantly easier terms for a new bailout was going to fail. Paul Krugman puts it down to incompetence. Aristos Doxiadis argues instead that having a plan B would have turned the Greek electorate against Syriza, since they were determined to stay within the Euro; and that the act of spelling the plan B out would have revealed how bad it was, causing them to back down.