User blog comment:Some Argonian Named Kesch/Stormcloak Rebellion: Is Anyone Really Right?/@comment-24165787-20131113212045/@comment-17114085-20131114012656

Empire-Torygg would not have gone against the Empire, he was their "puppet".

The future of Skyrim can't be posponed to fight the Thalmor as the Empire doesn't want to fight the Thalmor. So the Stormcloaks are trying to kick out the Empire so THEY can deside who they will or won't fight.