To counteract the growing opposition to war and militarism, the German government is resting on the war hysteria of representatives of well-off middle-class layers.
The biography of Hans-Christian Ströbele, who died on August 29 at the age of 83 after an extended illness, provides a profound insight into the evolution of Germany's Green Party from its origins in the 1968 protest movement to its current role as Germany's leading war party.
The gas surcharge is a kind of war tax that Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is using to pass on the costs of the Ukraine war, which the German government is uncompromisingly fuelling, to the population.