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They were not peaceful protesters. "Ulfric founded the Stormcloaks years ago. A sort of private army to advance his own ambitions." An army is a militaristic force.

Ulfric started the war! Killing a king and the Empire being pissed off at it means that the person who killed the king started the war.

And it's pretty hard to survive an onslaught.