User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-76.172.16.254-20121120131249/@comment-1600847-20121122001530

No, I never said the Empire has been around for 5,000 years. Please show me in my comment where I said that. Oh wait! I never did. Don't put words in my mouth.

What I said was that human history has shown countless times that uniting against a common enemy greatly increases your chances for victory. That is not an opinion, it's a fact. If you're outnumbered, you are much more likely to lose than if you're evenly matched... especially when, in Skyrim's case, they'd fought the Dominion before when evenly matched and almost lost. Imagine the same scenario, but his time the Dominion outnumbers them.

You can spout Stormcloak sayings all you want, the fact is being vastly outnumbered is NOT a good thing. Odds are even Ulfric would work with the Empire if it meant defeating the Dominion.