Yes, though I'd say: Risks of conflict and history of recent conflict are potentially just as high in North America. But those risks are broadly
internal or
civil rather than external. And so that's how the form the "prepper" ideology takes. Swedes fear the Russians; North Americans fear themselves or their own oppressed internal populations.
What I mean by this is: North America has a very recent (and actually still current) history of the seizure and occupation of internal "unsettled" lands by force -- from the indigenous people that lived there. And also I guess in the US from Mexico. 200 years ago this took the form of explicit physical genocide -- physical warfare and displacement of the natives. 50-100 years ago the form of explicit social genocide (residential schools, reservation system &the Indian Act in Canada, the Potlach ban, forbidding indigenous languages). These days its economic.
So the frontier settler mentality is strong and tied deeply into North American culture. The idea that this is a "land for the taking" in which the strong survive and the model of successful individuality is to carve out a piece of self-sufficiency in it.
Combine with the history of slavery in the US south and the ongoing cultural/racial war built around racial ideology there.
imho the self-sufficiency meme in North American culture has always fantasy been mostly cover for what is really a form of organized state violence and racial injustice.
(FWIW my own family on my mother's side was granted [or sold for very cheap] a section of land on the Albertan parkland by the British crown as long as they cleared and settled and farmed it. From which my grandfather had his subdivided section and a portion of the extended family still owns. The sale of my grandfather's farm directly funded at least a year of my university education (and my sibling's), and also the purchase of my first tractor here on my own hobby farm.)