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German Election Results: What the Hell Just Happened? – TLDR News
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Yesterday the German people headed to the polls to select a new Parliament and a new Chancellor. A day on we have some result already, so in this video we’ll unpack what’s happening & who’s likely to take up the chancellory.
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Is Russia Planning Another Mobilisation?
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With Russia’s persistent struggles on the frontlines, speculation that Putin could once again call for a mobilisation in order to improve his prospects on the frontlines. But given the major backlash to his previous attempt, will he risk it again?
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1 – https://meduza.io/amp/en/feature/2026/09/10/putin-dismisses-rumors-of-another-mobilization-as-nonsense-but-can-russia-keep-fighting-without-another-round-of-forced-recruitment
2 – https://www.euronews.com/2026/09/19/russians-leave-before-election-ends-fearing-mobilisation-to-follow
3 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
4 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-february-18-2026/
5 – https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/04/07/russia-has-shifted-to-a-year-round-conscription-system-here-s-what-that-means-for-the-country-s-young-men
6 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/14/russia-ukraine-putin-recruiters-mobilisation
7 – https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/what-we-know-about-north-korean-forces-joining-russias-war-against-ukraine-2026-08-06/
8 – https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur46/1361/2026/en/
9 – https://unn.ua/en/amp/russia-raised-payments-to-millions-but-the-number-of-contract-soldiers-has-decreased
10 – https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/28/russia-losing-6000-more-troops-than-it-can-recruit-each-month-in-ukraine-says-west
11 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/07/21/should-russia-brace-for-a-new-mobilization-a93256
12 – https://meduza.io/en/feature/2026/06/24/something-could-start-as-early-as-october-russian-authorities-are-discussing-a-new-wave-of-mobilization-after-the-state-duma-elections
13 – https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-tests-readiness-for-new-round-of-military-mobilization-87d61b96
14 – https://ua.news/en/world/u-rosiyi-gotuiut-spiski-pratsivnikiv-iz-bronniu-vid-mobilizatsiyi
15 – https://www.belfercenter.org/research-analysis/will-putin-resume-mobilization-if-so-when-and-why
16 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-12-2026/
17 – https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/09/21/as-fears-of-post-election-mobilization-swirl-russian-activists-prepare-for-the-worst-a93761
18 – https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-09-13/russia-uses-arrests-and-coercion-to-send-more-recruits-to-the-front-in-ukraine.html
19 – https://understandingwar.org/research/russia-ukraine/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-29-2025/
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Why Russia’s Election Results Were More Revealing than You Think
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In this video, we’re going to look at the official results from the Russian election; the real results; and what the widening gap between them might tell us about Putin’s strategic posture.
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Germany’s Political Centre Collapses: What Next?
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Over the weekend, Germany held two more state elections, both delivering another blow to Friedrich Merz’s CDU. In this video, we’re taking a look at what happened on Sunday and what this means for Germany more broadly.
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Is Ukraine Fighting a Proxy War in Mali?
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As a new front opens up in Mali, Russia and Ukraine are apparently continuing their battle away from home. In this video, we’re going to look at why Ukrainian forces are operating in Africa, what led to it and how it affects the war at home.
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Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78ld18lgr9o
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgl5jeg5r15o
https://www.csis.org/analysis/tracking-arrival-russias-wagner-group-mali
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/russias-wagner-mercenary-group-says-it-is-leaving-mali-after-mission-2025-06-06/
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/malis-army-claims-capture-rebel-stronghold-kidal-2023-11-14/
https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2026-07/west-africa-and-the-sahel-17.php
https://www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/fall-of-northern-mali-jnim-fla-offensive-russia-issp-camara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLCG-_I-DYk
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/12/africa/ukraine-russia-drones-mali-libya-intl
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/world/europe/ukraine-air-defense-deal-qatar-saudi-arabia.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/ukraine-denies-involvement-mali-attack-says-cutting-ties-short-sighted-2024-08-05/
https://adf-magazine.com/2023/12/as-critics-warn-of-blood-gold-mali-signs-deal-with-russia-to-open-refinery/
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/29106
https://africa.businessinsider.com/local/lifestyle/north-african-country-with-6-russian-military-bases-denies-allowing-ukraine-to-use/tkltznz=
https://english.nv.ua/nation/ukraine-s-hur-hits-russian-base-in-syria-after-putin-assad-meeting-50439035.html
https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/09/13/ukrainian-troops-are-now-operating-across-africa/
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Will Canada’s “Associate Membership” Lead to a Multi-Tier EU?
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On Wednesday, the EU invited Canada to become an “associate member”, but with many candidate countries waiting in the wings, it’s unclear what this actually means in practice. Could this be the first step towards a multi-tier vision of Europe?
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Ursula von der Leyen State of the Union speech, proposing associate membership for Canada:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/speech_26_1868
Macron’s two-tier proposal:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/05/11/what-do-we-know-about-macron-s-idea-for-a-two-tier-europe
Merz proposes associate membership for Ukraine:
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/05/21/merz-proposes-associate-eu-membership-for-ukraine-with-mutual-assistance
Albania & Serbia back gradual integration:
https://www.euronews.com/2026/03/11/serbia-and-albania-issue-joint-text-on-eu-accession-without-veto
Ukraine opposes gradual integration/membership-lite:
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/europe-cannot-afford-to-leave-ukraine-trapped-in-the-geopolitical-grey-zone/
EU member reservations about Canada associate membership:
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-capitals-mark-carney-ursula-von-der-leyen-associate-membership-canada/
https://www.ft.com/content/7b1a00f1-6842-4f5e-ace4-d6a57e98b21e
EU is already ad hoc:
https://www.euractiv.com/news/rapporteur-the-rise-of-ad-hoc-europe/
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@RazyGamer
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Markus Söder is a good one and would pack a punch as the leading voice of Germany hopfully he wins the next time
@johnharding9634
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
A pluralistic democracy is far preferable to the toxic two party system that prevails in the USA, UK and Australia…it diminishes politics to the equivalent a football hooligan farce, where tribalism trivialises the importance of serious press coverage and an informed electorate.
@johnharding9634
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Excellent coverage.
@KnIf0rTITAN
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
I notice you did not call die linke a far-left party despite how most German political violence comes from them but you did call the AfD a far-right party…. oversight or bias?
@catmonarchist8920
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Are the Top-up seats based on the vote in each region or the national vote?
@skorp5677
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
In case you're watching this in the future:
The greens and FDP discussed with whom they wanted to coalise before talking to the "big" players SPD and CDU. They settled on the SPD.
@TheVaryox
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
The election period truly was something else. Three candidates, each widely considered to be at the very least suboptimal, enter the arena. Baerbock and Laschet are considered to have good chances for victory, the greens even overtook the CDU at one point, no one takes Scholz seriously. It was joked a lot about the fact that the SPD even proposed a candidate for chancellor when polls put them at 12% at the time. Then Laschet screws up time after time, Baerbock gets bashed into the ground for (imo) basically nothing and suddenly, a month or two before election day, people seem to have forgotten all the scandals Scholz was a part of and his poll scores skyrocket without him doing absolutely anything. Sadly, during this whole campaign policy never really was in the spotlight like it usually is. Election day comes and those wild results came in.
The first really exciting election I lived through, because so many options were on the table, and the very real possibility that with Merkel resigning, many procrastinated topics would get attention again.
@thevoid5503
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
I wouldn't call the AFD German nationalists but a bunch of Russland"verstehing" Quislings.
@jayanthony3006
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
This isn't at all surprising or new in a country where you have more than two parties. Quite normal for coalition talks to last while.
@nederlandsfatsoenkanaal.4842
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Germany is such a backwards thinking country always falling behind everyone else
@plerpplerp5599
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Germany has a coalition government so no one wins, actually.
@catninja4950
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
oof I though the east german commie party won
@nicolasmarazuela1010
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Now that the coalition treaty is signed we know, that the FDP won also they are the jr. jr. partner.
@mvmv-pn8zt
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Sorry, a remarkably informed rush thru the German election results…. Failing to identify the political leanings of all parties save one. I wonder where the tldr bias is?
@miguelbonifacio9038
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
AFD the future for Germany
@ViewTube_Emperor_of_Mankind
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
The SPD under Schröder made the most disguisting laws in german history to make rich people richer and increase suffering of poor and disabled people. They implemented what basically is slavery of people who lost their job forcing them to work for 1euro an hour.. but thats the whole government in the last 30 years. Germany is one corrupt garbage place where even gambling and racism is on the rise again.
@kathirvelprabakran5842
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
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@locutusvonborg2k3
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
the problem is what to chose. i mean cdu is korrupt and as modern as the middle ages and all the others are just slightly better.
sadly there is no option to chose none, that would clearly represent that the whole government is representing shit …
@sanholo9494
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
This result is the perfect example why we also should have a maximum election age, old people only vote for CDU or SPD. Are we in Armerica ? The CDU lost 1mil People to death i think thats sums it up pretty well
@drizzle8309
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Being Belgian, the words 'coalition negotiations' made my eye twitch…
@xDennNiex
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
i would like to say cdu lost alot because of massiv corruption, underfunding important key elements of society and waste of taxmoney, but i am afraid its correct that they just did not like laschet that much. =)
@teemum.9023
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
You do the voting. They do the talking?
@lemmiix7758
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
I, a german, watching a non-german video to know what the hell happened
@shm-3kera88
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
soon we will have elections too: Bulgaria elections 2021-2022 idk
@ShirosTamagotchi
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
SchOlz, not SchUlz
also Kudos, you explained it well
@lelsims3613
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Are there any foreigners here or just Germans? lol
@93Litze
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
CDU is not christian democrats its the Corrupt Dictators, they changed the name years ago
@davinderc
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Kind of difficult to take you seriously when you make simple mistakes naming the parties and then I see in the comments section that this has been an ongoing problem…
@linux1324
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
English Video about Germany:
Germans: Mooin
@ska187
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
I love the colors of the map even though I don’t know much about German politics.
@Erik24296
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
This is the first video I ever watched where an Englishman talks about German politics. Nice that there's some interest in that, even though I can only imagine most of the world getting level 5 seizures trying to understand our system of government.
@claudiusflavius2493
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
"more importantly, a new chancellor"
That's your american perspective. The parliament is the more important, the chancellor really just represents the government which works through the parliament. As I see it, most Germans vote for parties not for (unremarkable) individuals.
@ke4sy
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Söder never actually challenged Laschet for the CDU leadership. Media brought Söder up and non-electial votings showed that Söder would be preferred by more than 60% of the population the other 40% was split between Laschet, März and another guy whose name I forgot. In the end there was the discussion if Söder might actually go for challenging Laschet, but he decided on his own to stay leading CSU in Bavaria. He sort of challenged Laschet, but not officially.
@victorconway444
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Well good to see the Totally-Not-The-Nazis party is finally in decline. Hope it stays that way, assuming Saxony one day comes to its senses.
@JoFoh
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Where's the FDP part?
@protoretro1290
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
Why can't the SPD and CDU join forces?
That'd give them a clear majority.
@COPROO
March 3, 2024 at 11:41 pm
First chart is wrong, the FDP has only increased by 12 seats in the Bundestag. That's about 1.5%.