This is also why I think the alliance is the right move. Don't do the thing your enemies want you to do. If four house lords want you to attack Terra...don't do it
Um, wrong. See, on a pure power dynamics level? sure. but on a character level, it's right up there with having Great Britain team up with 3rd Reich Germany against the Soviets in 1942. That's how far out of character the proposed alliance is, or having,say, Australia side with the Japanese against the United States in 1941. The similarities of society plus what differences are present, make them natural
enemies, not allies. Both Clan and Capellan society are built around a type of revolutionary dogma that doesn't tolerate other cultures, because their system doesn't function that way.
Because it literally
can't. this is teh same reason that things never warmed up between the CapCon and the Republic-both were absolutely personality cults imitating functional states, but the Cappies had the bureaucratic structure to actually make it work....and the Clanners really
don't. The Wolves 'used up' their occupation zone, but that's not because they ran out of resources, it's because they ran out of resources that their central planning society could tolerate. That's a major difference right there, and why they took Melissa's deal to invade the FWL for fresh sources-they can't innovate outisde of refining weapons tech, because that literally endangers their entire social structure.
There just isn't enough flex in the Clan system to accept Capellan ideas, and not enough room in Cappie thinking to accept and live under Clanner rules-even though those rules are similar.