User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Why the Stormcloaks are right./@comment-7953253-20130505074859/@comment-7371906-20130505124925

"The Thalmor almost completely wiped out the Empire so there was no way the Empire could've possibly win the war".

So your saying that the Thalmor almost completely wiped out a entire Military force that consists of four provinces by calming one and sending a ultimatum prior to attacking stating that they would only send a initial force only meant to claim the southern portion of the province of Hammerfell because the emperor Titus Mede II didn't for some reason prepare for anything like a Moron after reading very hostile demands in the ultimatum that was presented before the war and after retreating from their capital after southern Hammerfell was taken and then proceeding to mount a counter offensive to reclaim their capital they just decided to surrender for a compromise by agreeing to all the demands that were presented in the ultimatum and signed it in a different name without even bothering to negotiate a change in the demands in anyway in turn instilling anger to the Redguards and the denizens of Hammerfell who fought to prevent this event from happening in the first place, spiting on the graves on those who died fighting in The Great War, And banning one of their deities and allowing the Elven equivalency of the Spanish inquisition to go out to kill and torture anyone they suspect as a Talos worshiper. The only conceivable reason the Empire lost was because their emperor was extremely incompetent.

Actually Ulfric would only go into the Thalmor's plans if he loses the war because if he loses most of the Veterans from the Great war that joined his cause which made up most of his army all die with him or basically go rogue and turn into more or less like the Forsworn at the same time the Empire would be weak regardless due to the fact that the Empire has no one in the seat of power which isn't a very good thing since this is what happened in the start of the fourth era and during this time the empire had control of all four provinces and was claimed by a Colovian warlord with less than a thousand troops Titus Mede I now how does that look by the end of Skyrim with the empire without a Emperor, who suffered a civil war in one of their provinces and also lost one province in a previous conflict against an enemy who has been wandering around their empire killing potential soldiers citizens and anyone they could claim as a Talos worshiper, causing political strife within the Empire and have more information on the Empire in the thirty years after the war considering that the Aldmeri Dominion severed ties with the Empire banning them from entering the Summerset isle ever since the start of the fourth era when the over thrown the provinces previous Monarch also if the Empire wins and Skyrim remains a province whithin the empire all they need to do is claim the capital the Imperial city is Cyrodiil claim its seat of power and all of the empire just falls apart then and their and Skyrim goes down with is and do you honestly think that the high king that the Empire has selected Jarl Elisif the Fair would put up any fight when they probably selected her particularly because they can easily use her as a puppet like all the other high kings before her. if they attack immediately after Skyrim it is going to be a enormous curb stomp battle for the Empire regardless of what happened to Skyrim.