I found this quite hard work; it was a bit like watching the news.
Basically an attempt to explain a lot of both history and the modern world by reference to the geography, mainly of the various continents and major powers, so Russia has a chapter on how geography has constrained and shaped its empire, fears and ambitions, both current and historic.
Australia, oddly, was omitted, but the Arctic had a chapter, mainly because the ice melt has exposed far more navigable seas and mineral rich land, which is exciting competition among the super powers.
A theme which I didn’t know much about was Chinese expansionism, and a degree of contraction by the US, partly because it can frack for its own oil, as a result of which the Middle East loses strategic importance.
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