User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why The Imperials Are Wrong/@comment-6573099-20130728222128

Why do you insist on making your titles so controversial? Couldn't you have called it "Why I feel the Imperials are wrong" or "Why I feel the Empire is incorrect"?

1. Who is to say that the entire Aldmeri Dominion Army was fighting at the Imperial city? It is known that the Elves can wield powerful magic, and are able to, in theory, raise entire armies of undead and atronachs to fight for them. The thought that the Dominion would be so foolish as to send their entire army to fight and leave their homeland unprotected is foolish.

2. Who says the Empire is going to invade Morrowind and when? Please cite. Also, perhaps the Empire plans on restoring diplomatic relations with the outlying territories rather than "Invading them". Again common sense is in play. Why would the Empire need to invade Morrowind? HTe Argonians are not realy a threat to the empire or the Dark elves anymore, and seem to be fairly stationary now.

3. Old Orcs are not really good sources on Governmental advice. The Empire has more political influence and can handle ruling over multiple cultures much better than the Nords who openly oppress and harass other races. While I agree that the slogan of the nords made the empire should register little on the scale of political importance, it is silly to assume that that is the souls excuse that some people use.

4. I already explained this above. The Empire has been balancing diplomatic relations with other cultures for hundreds of thousands of years, where as the Nords have been mostly uninvolved with other races for many centuries. With the better dilomatic skills and even the possession of more resources, the Empire has more over the Stormcloaks. It is also worth noting that the access to a greater number of mages who can use a wider variety of spells doesn't hurt either.

The empire isn't perfect, but they have a better shot of consolidating and using the resources at their disposal than the Stormcloaks who would be willing to attack a city full of Innocent civilians to "Claim Skyrim for the Nords." As General Lee Oliver from Fallout New Vegas said "Ruling a nation isn't like chowing down on fancy lads snack cakes. You have to defend supply lines, protect and feed towns." or something to that effect.