As the offensive is met with fierce resistance from a small, well-equipped tactical army reinforced with 200,000 reservists, Russia first develops nerve gas on the outskirts of Kotka and then drops a regular low-performance nuclear warhead at Rovaniemi air base. Until a few weeks ago, this scenario would have been dismissed as the rage of a feverish warlord. Russia’s attack on Ukraine, however, is one of the reasons leading Finland and neighboring Sweden to join NATO. Finnish Prime Minister: Fear can not affect our choices “Russia is capable of gathering more than 100,000 troops at one point against one