 is weak and who's being managed by his his uh advisors this is this did not project strength to the taliban um and baghdad's far more interesting right you have a government that's willing to work with the us it's straddling the fence between the u.s and iran um the iranians have a lot of influence within the iraqi government but the iraqi government still relies on the u.s to help it fight the islamic state and provide some aid and other things