User blog comment:AveryWood/Reasons Why Going With the Empire is Better/@comment-1786741-20120817053847/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120820235807

No, the AD had nothing absolutely nothing (see the complete mess that was the Dominion's campaign against Hammerfell) to push on with.

If they had continued the war the Dominion would have overextended themselves and broken up from strain.