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3. Sweden has been non-aligned almost since it was separated from Norway over a century ago.

The Social Democrats were practically a "we-own-the-place" party for decades after the incident at Ådalen in 1931. Even during the Second World War, they remained "neutral," although only by allowing the Germans to use their railways to get to their installations in occupied Norway. There was never much support in Sweden for giving up its neutrality, even after a Soviet submarine spying on them ran aground after getting too close to the rocky Swedish coastline in the 1980s. Even after the Russians annexed the Baltic states into the Soviet Union in 1940, Sweden remained neutral. It took a really drastic move (like, for example, bombing the hell out of a peaceful neighboring country that had no intention of menacing Russia) to make Sweden and Finland even whisper about joining NATO.