Russia will attack NATO if Ukraine falls, Mike Pence warns – National [Video]

Former United States vice president Mike Pence says that he believes Russia will attack NATO if it overpowers Ukraine, emboldening other authoritarian regimes like China.

He called on Republican and Democrat lawmakers to fund Ukraine’s defence as well as that of Israel and Taiwan.

“If Vladimir Putin were able to overrun Ukraine… I think it would not be very long before we cross the border that our men and women would have to go and fight under Article Five,” he said, referencing the NATO founding principle that alliance members will defend each other if one is attacked.

The former vice president said if Russia were to overrun Ukraine, “it would not be long before we saw action in the Taiwan Straits or somewhere in the South China Sea,” because Chinese President Xi Jinping is watching to “see if the West falters.”

“We’re living in a time of widening threats …