In 2014, German President Gauck used the SiKo as a platform for promoting greater German participation in these wars. Germany needed to involve itself militarily „sooner, more decisively, and more substantially“, he said. German Foreign Minister Steinmeier and Minister of „Defence“ von der Leyen pushed the same line. For our ruling power elite, the supposed „military restraint“ is nothing but a relict of the past. Germany‘s new great-power politics – camouflaged as „global political responsibility“ – has become a component of a propaganda offensive by government-lining politicians and media, and the guideline of German foreign policy. Even support for the regime in Kiev, with its fascist participation, is accepted.