Well, the conservatives have won in Germany. Well, some of them have. Some of them won in Germany.

In fact, it was a very, very interesting night because the mainstream center-right party in Germany,

the Christian Democrats, won about 28 percent, give or take, of the vote, which in a parliamentary

democracy means that they're pretty

much in the best position in order to be the dominant party within the parliament, which

was quasi expected was that the AFD, which of course the mainstream media has listed as

the far right political party, actually came in second place, which means pretty

much ever the two, the two conservative parties in Germany are the ones that won the first

place and second place spots with left-wing parties such as the social Democrats, the

greens and whatnot, basically coming in third, fourth, respectively.

What's interesting is the parties that lost any representation within Parliament.

And perhaps what's most interesting is that the two conservative parties, the Christian Democrats and AFD,

the primary one has decided that they will not work with AFD under any circumstances.

And that doesn't just mean that they're not going to form a coalition government with them,

which is typically what would happen in these circumstances.

In many cases, they're trying to shut them out of the government as much as possible

because, quite frankly, there's been a concerted effort to ban the AFD,

to make it illegal to exist as a political party.

So the second most popular political party in Germany, one that won second place by a pretty

good margin, the other political parties were attempting to ban not that long ago.

And all of the political parties have vowed not to work with them.

So what we're going to discuss today is what actually happened in Germany, why, how we think the coalition is actually going to develop

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