Yes, entirely correct. Russian people have too much to lose and there is a lot of happy people who are enjoying life.
To go for this kind of desperation will need a lot more. Besides, they know that everything is of their own causing.
I just read a news, that US have already space based weapons up there operational in space. If US has a motivation to protect Europe from these attacks given, that the Russians use their most heavy assets that travel all the way up there. Then there is already counter weapons there to shoot them down, and then to respond with your own nuclear arsenal, which some participants in Europe also has.
If they will use tactical level of weapons, they have hard time for making them reach central Europe and there is plenty of air defense to shoot it down.
And then if they use those medium ones, they do not have so much of them and then they can as well be attempted to intercept with capabilities that Europe already have.
So it is not like Russia can just decide to destroy everything from everywhere without counter measures or responses that they need to be aware of.
This much is common sense. And fear mongering will not function.
But still, to make it more certain. More investments can be made to these protective measures and European own space programs can be accelerated.