Sherman123
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Unless Russia or Germany decided to invade them, they'd be ok. Germany is in a great state right now, Russia...meh, not so sure. But either way I'd take my chances if the U.S. got to a point where it was intolerable to stay and no change could be brought about by the people due to the government being too powerful.
It isn't all that unlikely. The Scandinavian countries have been marked by an acute fear that their claims to arctic territory, and their coastal peripheries will be eroded by aggressive Russian activities. Norway in particular has begun to realize the impossibility of defending its lucrative arctic claims against any other power and is relying upon Canadian and American diplomatic and military support to prevent a defacto Russian hegemony over their claimed territory. Moreover Finland has maintained an extreme high readiness military due to its fears over it's Russian neighbors and has played a delicate balancing act maintaining ties to NATO and the US over its fears of Russian retaliation in a variety of possible forms.
They wouldn't collapse without the US military umbrella, but they would see a radical shift in prescriptions for governance and foreign policy.