Bangladesh, March 2 -- The recent German elections have sent shockwaves across Europe, serving as both a wake-up call and a moment of reckoning for democratic forces. In December, when Chancellor Olaf Scholzs government lost the confidence of the Bundestag, it triggered not just a national crisis but a broader geopolitical concern. With Vladimir Putins Russia growing more assertive in its war against Ukraine and the United States under new leadership with a drastically different approach to transatlantic relations, Germanys political turbulence was met with widespread unease.

By the time the election results were announced last Sunday, the fragile nature of Western unity had become even more apparent. The new US administration, led once ...