User blog comment:Enda Kenny/Tamriel's Ultimate Fate : A Scholar's Insight/@comment-5558140-20130923002332/@comment-13446185-20130923022608

"any one side winning the civil war over the other is only benefitting the aldmeri dominion"

Actually the Thalmor Dossier on Ulfric Stormcloak specifically states that either side winning would be bad for the Dominion.

All the Dominion wants is for the war to last as long as possible.