Judo anyone ?

Russian President Putin just released a how-to video on judo .
Years back around the time of the 2000 Olympics , The Times of India ran a cover page headline with his photograph flooring another judoka with a powerfilled side-kick . That same front page had an article at the bottom of the page with Atal Bihari Vajpayee requesting the UN general assembly if he could sit and deliver his speech as he had severe knee pain .
And I had written in a letter to an editor the next day asking readers to guess which country amongst the two - Russia or India would win more medals in the forthcoming Olympics .
Jatha Raja , tatha praja !
Today , years later , as an unprecedented economic crisis faces the two countries both running rapidly towards capitalism like never before , Manmohan Singh has been fighting furiously . He's been dropping the CRR daily , increasing liquidity ,getting Chidambaram to front the press twice a day and pushing the US to get his pound of nuclear flesh . The fight is directed more towards the domestic markets than to any fundamental structural changes that can have any consequences in the futrue . The new Russian prime minister meanwhile got his armed forces to move into Arctic circle and lay claim on the Oil sources there , ensuring a robust domestic supply and a say in world politic for years to come .
Oh ! These russians .
Around two weeks back , a Norweigan ship with an Indian crew was hijacked by pirates around the coast of Somalia . The Indian crew on board is living in constant fear of losing its lives . The wife of the captured Indian captain has been appealing to the Indian govt to do something and we are dithering on who to approach and what to do . At around the same time a Russian ship got hijacked by Somalian pirates in the same waters .
Guess what Putin does ?
He's speedily sent a warship to surround their pirated ship in an attempt to tire and blow the Somalian pirates out . Ransom be dammed . The pirates attempted to dock the ship to take away the precious cargo - 33 Russian T-72 tanks , but the Russians aptly thwarted that attempt . They also enlisted help of neighbourhood US warships to surround the Somalians and starve them .
As the battle wages in the high seas , one just wonders why we aren't an active race .
Be it sport , economics or pirates , adjectives like 'Incredible ' , ' Emerging ' work well with India , but verbs like ' attacking ' , ' controlling ' don't .
Judo lessons , anyone ?