I think it is tough for Clanner fans to accept but the Kerensky mythology is just a mythology. The invasion did not work. Nothing went as expected. More importantly, their experiences since the return fundamentally changed the Clans. CJF is among the most conservative, maybe the most, and the reign of Malvina shows you in a very clear, very extreme way how a century of fighting in the IS has developed — or devolved, if you prefer — “clan orthodoxy.” To me, this is why it would make perfect meta-sense for Malvina to “win” the ilKhanate; that would demonstrate with a real finality that all of this had been a reactionary fantasy, a futile attempt to sail into the current of history. It is possible, of course, to scream into the wind but what do you become by doing it? I think the answer is, Malvina and the Mongols.