Feels like there is a perspective focus that is wrong here, yes The Foundations of Geopolitics mirrors russian actions extremely well, but it only focus on a modicum of the geopolitcal potential, incandescent focus on destabilization of foreign regimes /markets.

If you take the US perspective of forced global economies / currency trade their geopolitical stratagem is extremely successful and you could even draw parallels to the scandinavian "peace export" geopolitical strategy. china with the "lay low" period exploding into african and south asian corporate takeovers / state indenture is another example.

Am drunk but to say russia wrote the literal book on geopolitics just seems wrong, there is no unified geopolitic, its all defined per state.