it's been run by the same dictator for more than 25 years. and the rest of the world, sadly, has never much cared no matter how bad things were, no matter how bad things got in the nation of chad. in the early 2000s, it suddenly became a huge, urgent deal with, of international concern that chad was landlocked. that chad doesn't touch the sea. it's already -- it's always been true, but that became a huge new international crisis that all sorts of people were paying attention to in the early 2000s because in the early 2000s, that is when chad struck oil. and that changes everything. usually it doesn't change things for the better. over and over and over again, all over the world, you know, on the surface, you'd think that discovering oil, discovering gold, discovering some other thing that makes people rich,