Or maybe Putin has some other reason to create panic. In the US, liberals love to create panic, chaos, and confusion. It plays into their hand and encourages people to look to the government as their savior.
Remember “Never let a crisis go to waste”?
The corollary is “Need a crisis and don’t have one? Then create one.”
I suspect he is rubbing Obama’s nose in his own piss to humiliate the worst American President in history