you're in denial. I'm not going to post entire story arcs to convince a DC fan of anything. you can read the 5 Nightmares Iron Man run to see more of that stuff. you could read Iron Man: Inevitable. you could just look at the Civil War event to see him strategizing. there was more to it than the fist fight. he was making deals with multiple sources behind the scenes. the guy can plan. if he couldn't, he wouldn't have been leader of the Avengers so frequently.