User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-28600204-20130913153852/@comment-28600204-20130914091707

Giving up already? thats a shame I was rather enjoying the debate. Well... in case you change your mind I'll post one more :P

The funny thing is that if the Thalmor weren't involved I might have supported the Stormcloaks because in that case maybe Ulfric really would have been like Wallace, as it stands Ulfric is nothing like Wallace, Wallace's family was murdered by an oppressive kingdom that acted completely of it's own accord whereas the empire has been forced to do so by the Thalmor in order to postpone another war.

It needs time to rebuild, gather resources and recruit more soldiers. The thing is the Thalmor have been very clever with that they knew the terms of the agreement would divide the empire with infighting, that kind of backfired in Hammerfell because as far as I can tell their break from the empire was not violent which leaves a quick alliance possible and their rivaling factions afterwards united against the dominion who were arrogant enough to underestimate them.

The thing is that like the empire Ulfric is actually helping the Thalmor, because he didn't even attempt the non violent solution and he has weakened and divided the Dominions opponents even further, if he were helping Skyrim he would have taken steps to prepare for war and saved leaving the empire for after the great war when the Thalmor were no longer a threat.