End of Scandinavian Neutrality: NATO's Militarization Of Europe by Rick Rozoff Global Research, April 11, 2009 There was a noble if naive expectation that with the effective dissolution of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact in 1989 and even more so with its formal dismantling and the breakup of the Soviet Union itself into fifteen new countries two years later that an era of peace in the world and demilitarization of the European continent was dawning. The peace might not be a just one, leaving the majo...