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Putin co-authored a book on the subject. Judo: History, Theory, Practice
He literally wrote the book on Judo
He literally wrote a book on judo. One of the instructors at a dojo I used to attend helped translate it.
Literally wrote the book on Judo.
Most journalists can't put together an article.
Like /u/farkoman noted, high dans are about politics and general "life achievement", probably. Putin is a very visible character and widely known of practicing judo, so that alone probably would count. I think he also has written a few books about self-defense, amongst them at least this book about judo. (Yes - he's not the only author, so there is a chance he's the first author for celebrity power.)
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https://www.amazon.com/Judo-History-Practice-Vladimir-Putin/dp/1556434456
He's quite well-known for judo- he has been a black belt since 1970, is a former champion and has co-authored a judo manual.
Seriously. He even knows Judo
I really doubt it, Victory Belt was/is a pretty small publisher- for a while it was a hard enough to find an English version of some their books. Is there any Russian BJJ books? I am sure there is a shitload of good and bad Judo books in Russian written or not written by Putin.
https://amzn.com/1556434456
Putin literally wrote the book on Judo
https://www.amazon.com/Judo-History-Practice-Vladimir-Putin/dp/1556434456
You're right that Putin didn't force anyone to do anything - he encouraged it. Putin is a devoted follower of judo, the art of adding to your enemy's own momentum in order to defeat him. He wrote a book about it. So when Bush does something that makes people distrust us, Putin does everything he can to maximize the effect.
>the unpopularity for the war came from very different political and social parties.
That's how you know an external force was behind it. When you're trying to destabilize your enemy, you don't fund only his right wing, or his left wing - because your goal isn't to make him right-wing or left-wing - you fund extremists on both right and left. The goal of destabilization is to divide and paralyze your enemies, so they can't stop you from doing something like invading Ukraine, for example. Russia does that in the US too - in 2016 they supported not only right-wingers like Trump, but also extreme leftists like Jill Stein. Anything to encourage our instability.
No, I wasn't in Europe at that time, but it's still true.
Edit: quote from Putin's book:
>This decisive victory gave judo's creator the chance to confirm that he was right about the importance of a set of techniques - like kuzushi - for putting an opponent off-balance in preparation for a throw. Any novice judoka knows that today. But at the time, for many people, the technique was a revelation. Jigoro Kano himself maintained that kuzushi was an important stage of a throw, since an opponent, even a more powerful one, can be overcome without too much effort after being properly off-balanced.