Revealed – NATO plan to get US troops to the front line to fight RUSSIA: Alliance prepares for rapid deployment of American soldiers amid fears Moscow is plotting major war with Europe

NATO is drawing up plans to send American troops to the frontlines of Europe in the event of an all-out conflict with Russia, it has been revealed.

New ‘land corridors’ are being carved out to quickly funnel soldiers through central Europe without local bureaucratic impediments, allowing NATO forces to pounce in an instant should Putin’s devastating war in Ukraine move further west.

NATO already had plans in place for US troops to deploy in the Netherlands before moving towards Poland by train in the event of war.

Amid warnings from Norway’s top general that Europe only has two to three years to prepare before Russia could realistically attack the bloc, NATO is said to be exploring possible countermeasures.

NATO leaders agreed last year to prepare 300,000 troops to be kept in a state of high readiness to defend the bloc in case of an attack on a member state – just under half the force Napoleon sent to Russia in his disastrous 1812 campaign.

Polish officials, as in France, have refused rule out sending troops to meet Russia as it plans to field the biggest army in Europe by 2035.

Last March, the US also agreed to sell Poland 800 Hellfire missiles ‘and related equipment’ worth $150mn, as well as 116 Abrams tanks at $1.4bn. Warsaw also allowed the US to establish its first permanent garrison in Poland – a mostly symbolic move the US ambassador said was a sign ‘the United States is committed to Poland and the NATO alliance, and that we are united in the face of Russian aggression’.

Last week, a Russian military expert suggested Russia would be able to knock out Britain’s nuclear deterrent ‘in one day’ in the event of an all-out war.

Russia has stepped up its rhetoric on the possibility of war as NATO urges wider spending on defence and repeals limits on Ukraine using ally-supplied weapons to fire on Russian targets in Russia.

In December, Putin said to the contrary that Moscow had ‘no interest’ in attacking NATO, dismissing US President Joe Biden’s suggestion that Russia would not stop at Ukraine as ‘nonsense’.

Zelenskyy has long maintained that he will not negotiate with Russia directly, but has also urged Western leaders to pressure Russia into peace by ‘all means’ necessary amid fears Kyiv lacks the resources needed to go on repelling the invasion.

Claiming Russia was dropping 3,200 guided bombs on Ukraine each month, with the war now in its third year, he asked reporters: ‘How do you fight that?’.