Putin HAS experienced God's saving grace. Aside from building some 200 Christian churches in and around Moscow, they've rebuilt that huge cathedral (Храм Христа Спасителья) in Moscow which the commies tore down and made into a swimming pool complex in 22/23, take a look and think real hard and see if you can guess, between the US and Russia, whose side God is more likely to be on at this point in time:
