NATO Developing ‘Land Corridors’ To Rush
US Troops to Frontlines for War With Russia
Dave DeCamp / Antiwar.com
(June 4, 2024) — NATO is developing multiple “land corridors” to rush US troops and armored vehicles to the frontlines of a potential future ground war with Russia in Eastern Europe, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
Current NATO plans involve US troops landing in ports in the Netherlands and then transported through Germany to Poland, but the alliance is looking to expand the potential routes for US troops to reach the borders of Russia and Ukraine.
Officials told The Telegraph that they want US troops to be able to travel through five different corridors:
- Landing in the Netherlands and traveling through Germany to reach Poland
• Landing in Italy to travel through Slovenia and Slovakia to reach Hungary
• Landing in Greece to travel through Bulgaria to reach Romania
• Landing in Turkey to travel through Bulgaria to reach Romania
• Landing in Norway to travel through Sweden to reach Finland
The Telegraph report said that under the NATO plan, US troops and vehicles traveling through these countries would not be restricted by local laws, so they could travel quickly. The report said France has complained about its tanks being stuck at foreign borders while trying to deploy to Romania due to bureaucratic processes.
Starting in 2023, NATO has been working on war plans for a potential future conflict with Russia for the first time since the Cold War. The alliance is planning for a possible ground war with Russia despite the obvious risk of any direct NATO-Russia clash quickly escalating into a nuclear exchange.
Kremlin Warns: Western Troops in Ukraine
Will Have ‘No Immunity’ from Russian Strikes
(June 4, 2024) — The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that there will be “no immunity” from Russian strikes for Western troops deployed to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a warning that comes as France is planning a deployment.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments in response to an op-ed by Lee Hockstader that was published in The Washington Post on Monday.
Hockstader wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin “might see hitting French troops, if Russian forces can locate them, not only as a way to expose Western divisions but also as a chance to humiliate [French President] Macron, now among the most hawkishly anti-Russian Western leaders.”
According to RT, Peskov said, “The fact is that any instructors who are involved in training the military of the Ukrainian regime do not have any immunity. And it doesn’t matter whether they are French or not.”
According to a report from Reuters, France might announce its plans to deploy a few hundred military trainers to Ukraine following a meeting between Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 7.
All the talk about a potential French deployment has highlighted the fact that there is already a small number of NATO special operations troops inside Ukraine (97 as of March 2023). Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Tuesday that there were already indications French trainers may be in the country and said they were legitimate targets.
“As for the issue of French instructors, I have grounds to think and there are quite a few specific facts that they are already working in Ukraine. Regardless of whether they are considered to be servicemen from the French armed forces or … simply mercenaries, they represent a legitimate target for our armed forces,” Lavrov said.
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