# Is NATO obsolete?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 11, 2018, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-nato-obsolete/817721 "2018-07-11T16:15:43Z")\
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> [@Lamoral](#):
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> I’m just being a pragmatist here. \<SNIP\>

No; you are being a coward. And an immoral one at that. You have all but affirmed that you are willing to let the world be taken over piece by piece by a (potentially) evil empire with all its features in order to avoid a war. There are things worth fighting for and dying for and NATO was created to defend them.

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