Not to overanalyze the situation or anything
but to me it looks like most alliances are avoiding pissing eachother off thus far. Seems to be a few small specific targetings here and there but nothing on a large scale. To me it looks more like personal vendettas being fulfilled and whatnot.
Is this the alliances treading gingerly because of a lack of comfort in the number of allies they used to have (and as a result keeping their political options open *gasp*) or is everyone just taking it easy because it's 9.5?