User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-1822253-20140101234739/@comment-1822253-20140102012054

Regardless of whether or not Mede was popular is moot, he was Emperor and if his assassination is made canon, the Council and the next Emperor will undoubtably place Mede's assassination as a job done by the Stormcloaks or ordered by Ulfric himself. No matter how you see it, they will be pressured to find a way to "punish" them other then using the military, and the most obvious would be an embargo. And last time I checked, the food Cyrodiil sells in Skyrim, is far more important to the people of Skyrim then the ore Cyrodiil gets.

Skyrim doesn't have the manpower or the resources to fight a major war against the Dominion right after their war for indepence.

And no, this is complete speculation. We have no idea how many soldiers the Dominion actually lost when their forces were annhilated when the Imperial forces took back the Imperial City as the only ingame source claiming that the Dominion "threw everything" into this last battle is from an IMPERIAL LEGATE! He would not be privy to the Dominions military information even after the war ended. Thus, for all we know that could have been less then 50% of Dominion forces lost. Not to mention that the Dominion army would also consist of Bosomer and Khajiit, while the Thalmor would consist solely of Altmer. So it really depends on the makeup of the Dominion forces.

Sorry Zippertrain85, but I have to disagree with your speculation.