User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-1600847-20121031011532/@comment-1889545-20121101084433

The Aldmeri dominions master plan is effectively break up the Empire without commiting soldiers to do so. As the new nations would have no political ties, particularly if, like the Stormcloaks, many of the soldiers signed up for nationalistic purposes and to remove racial minorities from their lands, aid from the other nations is unlikely to occur.

Also, it is commented by Hadvar that Ulfric always seemed to be one step ahead of the Empire in the war which suggests a traitor as no one can do that without a spy. Later, in the Thalmor embassy, you can find a book about Ulfric revealing that it was the Aldmeri dominion keeping Ulfric alive. In other words, Ulfric would have died long before the storyline if the Thalmor hadn&apos;t intervened which suggests to me he is not a capable leader.