German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius played down questions about his country’s ability to sustain defence spending of 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) for 2024. “We are above 2%, that is the message,” Pistorius said at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. “A good horse doesn’t jump higher than it has to,” he added. For the first time in three decades, Germany notified NATO of planned defence spending amounting to at least 2% of its GDP, according to information obtained by dpa. The German government reported allocating the equivalent of $73.41 billion for defence spending in the cu…