Bashir Goth offers a trade from his Washington office. He represents the breakaway state of Somaliland. He offers the deep water port at Berbera. He offers one of the longest runways in Africa. He offers exclusive rights to lithium and coltan mines. In return, he wants formal US recognition. This is the new Scramble for Africa. It is a doctrine of Mineral Imperialism. The US military eyes Berbera as a new foothold. It is a base against Iran and the Houthis. In Zambia, the trade is even more brutal. The State Department linked HIV aid to lithium access. This is the bypass model of extraction. American firms are seizing mines from Chinese rivals. They treat African soil as a corporate battery. The port at Berbera has no medical clinics. It has plenty of room for American jets. Capital ignores the people to secure the ore. The DRC has boosted copper sales to the US. Virtus Minerals has seized the Chemaf cobalt operations. This is a direct counter to Chinese dominance. Zimbabwe has imposed strict quotas on raw lithium exports. It demands localized processing to stop the leakage. Indonesia is hiking benchmark costs for nickel ore. The Global South is trying to resist. They want to maximize their sovereign rent extraction. But the US and Japan are hitting back. They established border-adjusted price floors for nickel. This decouples Western supply chains from global markets. It is the end of the free market era. It is the beginning of a resource fortress. We are watching the enclosure of the earth.