How? This issue is never money - it's always availability and logistics. In a regional crisis, what would you do with the gold? Is there anything to buy from outside the region? If so, how would you get it in? And does gold really help here, or would the other countries give it to you or lend it to you anyway?
Sometimes you have one border blocked from one side, and another not blocked from the other. For instance when the UN split up Israel they gave the Isrealites connectivity to the Mediterrean and the sea, only country other than Egypt to span both and enormously valuable. Huge value loss to the Palestinians: Israel has even had plans for a canal.
Worth noting the UN partition plan was never actually adopted in a binding way.
