User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks" refuted (part 1)/@comment-4225295-20131206210942/@comment-9062114-20131207211421

1) Maybe they have some allies in Valenwood, but I'm almost 100% sure that Elswyer doesn't support them in war. The Khajiit don't care about any of their beliefs, they only follow them for the moons. First of all, it's called the Summerset Isles, Alinor is the name of a city (sorry, that's a pet peeve of mine). Second of all, if the Empire does help the Dominion invade Skyrim, you're basically admitting that everything Ulfric said about the Empire was true. Also, what makes you think they would even be successful in that invasion?

2) The amount of soldiers they would need there aren't enough to supply a fiull army.

3) How do you know that the Thalmor Justiciars are not from Embassies? The only other things the Thalmor have are forts, which probably don't carry that many people.