User blog comment:The 777 Sniper/Stormcloaks vs. Imperials/@comment-3501448-20120304215940

To me, Ulfric is a racist idiot who lets his passion override his logic. He'd throw away the lives of the idiots who follow him for his own selfish gain. The empire needs time to let the Thalmor issue settle, and then I'm extremely confident the Thalmor will be destroyed, but if Skyrim was to break from the empire, that would weaken both sides, and thus leave easy pickin's for the Thalmor. It doesn't matter that the Nords populated Skyrim in the First era, that time is over and the time of unification is the essence of the Fourth era.