User blog comment:Spritydove/Deeper Thought into the Civil War/@comment-4976111-20120616024123/@comment-80.216.219.47-20120617095939

How could it have cost more than it's worth if the Dominion was strong enough that the mede empire would have lost if they had kept fighting for better terms?

Unless the Dominion was in worse shape than the mede empire in the Great war it doesn't work.