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ironman apparently forces cloud saves
It does not. When you start a new Ironman game you get a tick box to select cloud or local saves.

In any case there is a bug with cloud saves at present.

You may be able to recover your save with this process:
IF you haven't subsequently started a new campaign.

Please only use local saves until this problem can be fixed.

My apologies for the problem!