User blog comment:Harold Burned-Mane/The Truth about Ulfric Stormcloak/@comment-28600204-20130913153852/@comment-28600204-20130913235720

The nords would fight them but why on earth would the empire ally with skyrim in that situation? They would be focusing their remaining resources protecting themselves not people that killed a load of their soldiers and made them a lot weaker, I mean look at the UK and the US, after the american revolution it took about 100 years for them to get on decent terms.

And a couple more points: I also remember hearing that Torygg respected Ulfric and may have supported independance if Ulfric had just asked him, and even if that isn't true Ulfric could have at least tried seeing as it would have avoided a lot of bloodshed. Also the Stormcloaks are weak, if the dragons hadn't returned they would have lost the war.