User blog comment:DarkSaiyanMitsubi/Empire or Stormcloaks?/@comment-1786741-20121010075951

If you support the Thalmor you probably just want the civil war to continue but if you HAD to choose a side, I'd say the Empire. Either way, one side or the other winning is bad news for the Thalmor but an Empire victory means continued influence in Skyrim. Sure, a Stormcloak victory means a weakened Empire but it also means Skyrim being outright hostile towards them. At least with the Empire the Thalmor still has power in Skyrim as long as the Empire continues to follow the White-Gold Concordact which will be quite a while considering how long it would take for the Empire to recover.