The so-called 'green transition' is rapidly devolving into a new era of mineral imperialism. In the state of Goias, U.S. diplomats are aggressively pressuring the Brazilian government to grant priority access to lithium and rare earth deposits, explicitly demanding they bypass Chinese buyers. This move is a desperate counter-maneuver to Beijing’s $120 billion global mining spree, which has successfully locked down critical supply chains across Africa and Southeast Asia. The U.S. strategy, coordinated with Japanese price floors, attempts to frame resource extraction as 'energy security,' but for the communities in the Global South, it is the same old story of extraction and exclusion. In Zambia, the U.S. State Department has gone as far as threatening to withhold life-saving PEPFAR HIV assistance unless granted exclusive access to cobalt reserves. Capital has no interest in a 'just transition'; it only seeks new frontiers to enclose. Whether it is Chinese state-backed firms or American private-sector 'partners,' the goal is the same: the total capture of the raw materials required to power the next century of accumulation.