The incoming conservative-led government in Germany will face daunting challenges as it confronts a rapidly changing security environment in Europe while trying to protect Ukrainian sovereignty. On the one hand, there is “an autocratic, perhaps even totalitarian aggressor” in the Kremlin, and on the other, “an unpredictable actor within the system of checks and balances” in the White House, Timm Beichelt, a professor at the European University Viadrina, told Eurasianet. The “aggressor versus friend” dichotomy…