User blog comment:Sgt. S.S./Why I support the Empire/@comment-2172565-20120321182901/@comment-4947266-20120322035922

the problem with the stormcloaks coming to power is that the empire, plus all the nords of skyrim backing it, barely survived its war with the aldmeri. that was the nords,imperials, and the other members of the empire all together, and to be honest they lost. if all these groups together barely made it through a war with the thalmor, how are the nords going to survive if they start a fight with nothing but their own troops for the war? and true, the dragonborn did pretty much take town the thalmor in the area by himself, but for that matter he also takes down Alduin, possibly Parthunaax, probably thousands of bandits, the forsworn, any dragon he meets, the occasional daedric prince, either the empire or the stormcloaks, either the emperor or the dark brotherhood, hundreds of Draugr, nests of spiders, bears, wolfs, sabercats, falmer, dwarven machines...... okay i cant think of any more skyrim enemies. what Ulfric is doing right now IS open warfare with a country he says he loves. and i think you are assuming too much about the stormcloaks should they win. new nations have also been crushed in the past too.

whatever. i am just still waiting for the eventual DLC that will allow the dragonborn to defeat the thalmor with either the empire or the stormcloaks. hopefuly that will shut everybody up about which side is better, including me.