User blog comment:Wolfishtail/The Ultimate Civil War Vote/@comment-101.164.70.124-20130609043023/@comment-101.164.84.121-20130621112308

Sorry for the delay, I thought I replied already to this. So, first of all the Empire decided to kind of subject  themselves to the Thalmor's will because of the devastation the war between the two would have caused for their people (which I think someone already said). Secondly, they are an already numerous and developed force which can suggest they could handle things better than the Stormcloaks since they only originate from Skyrim itself. On that note, considering Ulfric's unable to manage effectively his own cities (i.e. Windhelm and Riften which had fallen into disarray {e.g. Blood on the Ice and the corruption of the city guards there). His motives for killing Torygg were unclear and (from what has been mentioned) selfish. He clearly knew he was going to throw Skyrim into madness as a result, so why decide- in the name of freeing the people- to plunge them so far deep? I was going to say something about racism but that isn't really neccesary.