Sort each statement: a geographical constraint or a policy in geographical clothing?

Geographical constraint: Mountains make territory expensive to hold, Navigable rivers lower the cost of moving goods, Distance degrades the reach of pre-modern authority

Policy in geographical clothing: Whoever rules the Heartland commands the world, A nation requires living space to fulfil its destiny, Our frontier must reach its natural limits

The left column can be measured; the right column tells a state what it must do while claiming to be a map. The grammar of inevitability is the tell.