Interesting you say that when Mendicant said to Machiavel he'd support you unconditionally against the Luria's and S.A. exactly during the time when Asylon was war with Kabrinskia.
You should have declared war, Barca would probably never have been invaded by Aurvandil (As we would have been supporting you) and D'Hara would have been saved from its massive collapse from famine with its markets open to Aurvandil during the longest winter.
Right, because Aurvandil could TOTALLY have prevented foreign armies from hitting us...
Or, lemme think a second... No, absolutely not. Too many realms in reach of D'Hara, offering ourselves as meat shields would be suicide.
