Estonia must 二塁打 弁護 spending to 反対する Russia, 軍の 長，指導者 says
By Tim Kelly
TOKYO, March 28 (Reuters) - The 長，率いる of Estonia's 軍の said on Thursday that his country needs to 二塁打 弁護 spending over the next two years to 備蓄（する） enough 軍需品s to （打撃，刑罰などを）与える a 決定的な 敗北・負かす on any ロシアの 侵略 軍隊.
General ツバメ Herem said neither the 脅し of a 核の 返答 nor the prospect of 重要な 死傷者s would 阻止する 大統領 Vladimir Putin if he chose to attack Russia's small Baltic neighbor, which would be 荒廃させるd unless he was driven 支援する 急速な／放蕩な.
"If you show your 直面する over my 国境, the 決定的な victory must come very quickly: not by months and years, but days and weeks," Herem said in an interview in Japan, where he was 会合 弁護 公式の／役人s. "If we really believe that it may come in three years, then we have to make 決定／判定勝ち（する）s today."
Putin on Wednesday explicitly 否定するd that Russia had designs on any 北大西洋条約機構 member, but his 十分な-規模 侵略 of ウクライナ共和国 in 2022 has made Western countries nervous that he could 捜し出す to 回復する Moscow's 支配（する）／統制する of much of the former Soviet Union, or go even その上の.
Estonia, once a Soviet 共和国, has already 増加するd its 弁護 予算 to around 3% of 甚だしい／１２ダース 国内の 製品, a leader の中で members of the U.S.-led 北大西洋条約機構 同盟, since Russia 別館d Crimea from ウクライナ共和国 in 2014.
Its Foreign 知能 Service said last month that Russia was 準備するing for a 軍の 対決 with the West within the next １０年間 and was 始める，決める to 二塁打 the number of 軍隊s 駅／配置するd along its 国境 with the Baltic 明言する／公表するs and Finland.
Other 北大西洋条約機構 countries are 増強するing their presence in the Baltic 明言する／公表するs; Germany 計画（する）s to have 4,800 戦闘-ready 軍隊／機動隊s in the 地域 by 2027, its first 永久の foreign （軍隊などの）展開，配備 since World War Two.
Herem said he had spoken to Japanese 弁護 省 公式の／役人s in Tokyo about acquiring 構成要素s that could help Estonia build 弁護 器具／備品 more cheaply.
Although 平和主義者 Japan has strict 抑制（する）s on 弁護 輸出（する）s, it has より小数の 制限s on commercially 利用できる 構成要素s that can also be used in 軍の 器具／備品. That, said Herem, could 含む 地震 sensors 存在 used to （悪事，秘密などを）発見する approaching ロシアの 戦車／タンクs. (報告（する）／憶測ing by Tim Kelly; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
