For this entire conflict Biden and his administration has made a series of convoluted and bellicose statements about Russia and Ukraine. Boris Johnson has actively worked to scuttle peace talks between Zelensky and Russia, traveling as personally to Ukraine earlier this year. If you research into the history Ukrainian conflict since the early 2000’s, you will learn of our activities there, and how Victoria Nuland in the Obama administration funded causes in Ukraine leading to civil strife.
In the past, operations have been launched with the goal of provocation, forcing an enemy to react and thereby providing justification for retaliation. In some parlance that is called a false flag. It provides an administration an excuse to lead in a time of conflict. In this case the Biden Administration would get a war theater in order to win the midterms and distract the American people from inflation and unemployment.