Getting AI to fight each other?

[RaidandTrade]

In Civ V, you could pay someone to go to war (and get paid to DOW). In VI, the only option seems to be joint war - and only in limited circumstances.

Has anyone found a way to put the AI's against each other?

The only thing I can think of is to forward settle the target and gift the city to the person you want to fight them. If it works, do people see it as an exploit?

I've done a mega-forward settle (late game) to see if I get DOW'd - they already denounced me so we'll see... Five turns has passed without DOW so I'm not sure it will work. (Plan B is to use the city as a forward base and heal up spot for eventual war).

 

[toptech]

Late game it is harder to get AIs to go to war because they don't want to be warmongers. Early game though it is cake.