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Both sides are badly flawed, but the Imperials want to fight the Dominion and the Thalmor when they have properly prepared with as much of Tamriel united as possible. The Stormcloaks want to weaken the Empire and provoke a Dominion response before anybody is prepared to deal with it. Also, Ulfric is acknowledged to be an unwitting pawn of the Thalmor. The only two character concepts I've found that work joining the Stormcloaks are a brainless Nord warrior who thinks with his emotions and a High Elf covert (not really) Thalmor operative working to dismember the Empire further to make its eventually conquest and assimilation into the Dominion easier.