ermany is ready to take a leading role in ensuring Europe's security, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Friday, vowing to transform the country's military into the "best equipped" on the continent. Branding Vladimir Putin's Russia the "biggest threat" to NATO, Scholz said Europe had to be prepared to face up to the challenge. "We are making it convincingly clear: Germany is ready to take on leading responsibility for the security of our continent," he told an army congress. "As the most populous country with the greatest economic power and as a country in the middle of the continent, our army must...