Because I couldn't find anyone to present the Eurasian perspective I've gone straight to the horse's mouth, as it were, this is a reading of Aleksander Dugin's "Military Operation in Ukraine Geopolitical Analysis."
https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/military-operation-ukraine-geopolitical-analysis
Art: Bitva v trekh sferakh (na sush, na mor i v vozdukh) (Battle in Three Spheres [Land, Sea, and Air]) from Voina (War) 1915, published 1916