Chili bean has now borders for 3 rings, giving me a nice visibility of any incoming attacks from Elkad's side. I doubt any are coming in the near future though. You can also see my latest crap city, but more importantly ivory is online next turn. Hopefully I can keep it that way.

Based on the power graph, he is might be simply reinforcing his cities at this point, since at least capital was quite thin on defenders.
. Kind of lost interested at updating this thread, since my position is quite hopeless.