Does U.S. Need "Flawed" Countries to Deal With Its Enemies?

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Why does the United States rely on nations like Qatar, Oman, and Pakistan to negotiate with its fiercest adversaries? In this deep-dive discussion, we strip away the sanitized public relations of international diplomacy to expose the cold, transactional reality of global power politics: why clean, completely aligned allies are structurally useless when dealing with factions like the Islamic Republic or the Taliban. We break down the unwritten rules of negotiation, exploring how vulnerable, strategically compromised intermediate states weaponize their own positions to gain vital international leverage, and why America is forced to play along with the business of Middle East backchannels to manage global stability.