User blog comment:Thedoucheinthenorth/The Civil War - Why it is great/@comment-76.172.16.254-20121120131249/@comment-5135631-20121208150509

I apologise for rudeness, but why should I use the same examples I've already used? See a couple of posts below, look for the one about Europe and Vietnam, and you will see that being unified is not always the right way to go.

If the Empire was genuinely unified, I'd agree with you, but they're not. There is a lot of tension between Nords and Imperials, and to take an example of public opinion, the majority of Nordic NPC's I've met who prefer a side in the war prefer the Stormcloaks.

It's not like if Skyrim leave the Empire will send every troop they have at Skyrim. To bring up Hammerfell, though it was a more general victory over the Thalmor, the circumstances were similar: nation is divided, but once Thalmor come in, they are sown together and Thalmor are bloodily repulsed. Why shouldn't the same happen in Skyrim?