Not giving you what you want != unreliable. It’s been extremely reliable for folks that want other things.
Constantly ripping up trade/other deals that were signed in the last decade is unreliable and hard to plan around.
I was gonna post my actual thoughts but then had a vision of me being show this comment at the border as the reason I can't enter the US.
Context of this discussion is Canada (and Europe). It's not at all reliable for them.
Imposing tariffs one day and TACOing out a few days later and infinitum is not reliable. There is no 4D chess going on, only incompetency and self-enrichment.
The US is on the path of Russia since the end of the iron curtain, moving to a kleptocracy ruled by (tech br)olichargs.
The electoral + two-party system makes it nearly impossible to break out of this.