The blackout on news from Russia is profound. Thousands of evangelical ‘house churches’ popped up last year. There is a protestant revolution going on in Russia that is profound. The a-religious US government and press don’t see the connection.
It would be pleasant to see this, but, from what I understand, Protestants are a hopeless minority and are constantly under the attack by the Russians. Most of that country are quite happy to live in chains, as Machiavelli predicted a long time ago in his analysis of such nations:
“Many examples derived from the records of ancient history will show how difficult it is for a people used to living under a Prince to preserve their liberty after they had by some accident acquired it, as Rome acquired it after driving out the Tarquins. And such difficulty is reasonable; because that people is nothing else other than a brute animal, which (although by nature ferocious and wild) has always been brought up in prison and servitude, and which later being left by chance free in a field, and not being accustomed to obtain food or not knowing where to find shelter for refuge, becomes prey to the first one who seeks to enchain it again.” (Discourses of Livy, Ch. XVI)
God can certainly convert a whole people if He so desires, but it seems more like that nation is being built up to torment the West, like Babylon was used to torment an apostate Israel.
It would be nice to be proven wrong, of course.