One who is for us can't be against us, but one who isn't for us can be against us, where there's no middle ground. However, if God is for us, what does it matter who's against us.
Putin was chosen to liberate the Russians and Russia as a whole from all the nasty corrupted people and later reformed the damaged society into a real Christian society. God is with Russia. There is no other explanation why Russia became so strong.
I think Pugachev’s problems explains his abandonment of his marriage to Alexandra Tolstoy: in a bid to keep her and his children safe he has had to desert them, keeping Putin off their tracks.
