No Cause for Alarm Hanns W. Maull In “ Europe’s Next Hegemon ” (March/April 2026), Liana Fix offers an elegant, astute analysis of Germany’s present security policy conundrum. Yet her concern about the dangers of renewed German military hegemony in Europe is overblown. Germany’s democratic parties remain committed to Europe and to Western alliances, and they agree that the principal threat to German security stems from Russia. A democratic Berlin has every interest in continuing to support