That is a piss poor take from someone who clearly has a reason to be biased.
The Russian objective with this conflict was to drag the west into a nuclear standoff just like would happen in Soviet times. If they just suddenly went in and took Donbass they'd be condemned, sanctioned more and everyone would move on just like what happened with Crimea. By making this a crisis before they even invaded with intelligence leaks, recognition of the Donbass republics and manipulation of the European gas market they've forced the Anglos to pay attention to the Ukrainian problem and not brush it down the road for the next few years.
Note that all western leaders are largely uncomfortable about addressing this, other than to say "stop talking about nukes". They still want to play the game of pin the sanction tail on the Russian donkey, because that's all they're good at.
Biden is nowhere to be seen, while Putin has been giving daily updates. At some point they are going to have to tell the people they are supposed to represent that they're potentially in a nuclear crisis. I expect he's busy practicing his address to the nation about the unfolding crisis his European partners have got him into. Kennedy set a pretty high bar.
They know the Anglos are losing control of their empire and and have decided to strike now.