German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius on Thursday assured Washington that Berlin is prepared to play a leading security policy role in Europe and will provide the military capabilities to do so. “Let us – the US and Germany together – shape a future with all those who stand up for freedom, peace and the rules-based international order,” Pistorius said in a keynote speech at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington on Thursday. Germany is a steadfast ally and is able and willing to fulfil its role in the alliance and in global politics, Pistorius said. The minister said that Germany was in …