User blog comment:JoshofBlades/Why the Empire Should Prevail Over the Stormcloaks! (part 2)/@comment-72.18.40.121-20120108020323

Ulfric Stormcloak is just a whinny little baby (sorry to be so blunt) and he uses all these 'ideals' as a scapegoat for his war-mongering and power-grabbing. He says that the empire needs Skyrim more than Skyrim needs the empire when in actuality they both need each other. If Skyrim were to win this war they would immediately fall into another with the all consuming Thalmor, because why not? The Thalmor are strong, just not strong enough to effectively fight the empire, and they will seize this opportunity to take a good chunk of land for themselves. Also, the empire will be significantly weakened and less able to fight the Thalmor when to war does reignite.