This was my suspicion too, this follows the trend of blaming Russia for everything. The accusation also flies in the face of Putin’s successful populism, instead promoting an angle of “autocrat” which again reflects current western propaganda trends regarding Russia. Russia is also not known for chaos, they are known for order perhaps being still chained to their history of Soviet development, it just varies upon which class’ interests are pursued. America on the other hand is a chaos engine following no planning, throwing all logic for the sake of continuity.