AI foreign relation is dodgy!

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Sometimes I couldnt understand why the Ai is so dodgy?
Play a game on regent (finally manage to survive). On a continent on the left hand side, with roman at my south, i dominates the north.
On the East is a island with Aztec, Iroquios and America. America get wipes out in about 500 AD.
Roman keeps threatening me for tribute, but i manage to assimilate many of his cities to compensate for it.
Then in later age, Aztec and Iroquios start a war to each other. Iroquios want me to sign RoP and mutual protection pact but also ask me to pay them 20 gold per turn. I try to turn down the 20 gold per turn and bargain to get 10 gold per turn.
Then Aztec attack my island but i blow up his ships. Later on Iroquios and Aztec sign a peace treeaty, leaving me alone to fight the Aztec. Afterwards we sign a peace treaty coz he cant take me down (i got destroyer attack his ironclad)
Later on they fight again, this time Iroquios ask for mutual protection pact, but i refuse only give him RoP to keep up the polite relation
Then Roman on my south, decalre war on both of them.
Later on they all sign peace treaty.
and there is peace for a long time but at about 2016 suddenly Roman bombard my railroad with Artillery and send in modern armour to invade me (he is gracious towards me, and btw he didnt declare war, he just bombard me) but i wipe his invading army out and use tactical nuke (good enough when we are on same island = less time building) to bombard cities with heavy defence.
Then Aztec air raid roman randomly (he didnt declare war either). Eventually i occupy several Roman cities and razing some (raze small and unimpportant cities, keep cities on good location)
but then suddenly the Aztec also send in bombers and bombard my railroad (but still we arent on war) How can this be? I find it hard to keep diplomacy with AI coz they act too randomly.
 
You attacked with nukes, so you can expect a couple of civs to turn against you.

Futhermore: sometimes it happens that you have a MPP with another. But what you don't see and what I expect did happen was the good peace treaty deal the Iroquios got from the Aztecs.
I rather have an AI that's eratic than a very predictable AI that always sticks to the deals. And you must not forget the benifits of broken deals: the AI CIV gets a bad rep, which ultimately is good news for you.

In real world you saw Italy supporting the Germans in WW1 and WW2. Both times they switched sides during the war... I'm not going to say that CIV3 emulates the real world, but eratic behaviour is a very human treat.
 
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