User blog comment:Zippertrain85/"Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! Part 3 (Economics)" Refuted/@comment-72.12.193.150-20140103035941/@comment-1600847-20140105004845

By definition, a Pyrric victory is when you win at so great a cost you either lose or cannot continue the war. The only way to know if the Empire won a Pyrric victory would be to know if the Thalmor had any armies yet, which we've all agreed we don't know. If the Thalmor had troops left then yes, it was a Pyrric victory. If they lost everything, however, then Mede didn't call their bluff and surrendered for nothing. If they had nothing, then Mede should have just wipped his ass with the Concordat and told the Thalmor to go screw themselves, but I'm getting ahead of myself. We don't know.