Quote Originally Posted by Opperhapsen View Post
We've been over why Skyrim would do better militarily without the empire to bog it down.
I can't see this. It will be much harder to project force if Cyrodill is in the way and they can't get any support from them if they want to go on the offensive. On the defensive, now they can't get any support from the other provinces. If they just let the Thalmor take all the other provinces, they're screwed when the Thalmor swarm. Well I suppose they might get out with the dragonborn storm calling everything, but if that's the case they're fine on the defensive either way. Letting everyone else fend for themselves is a sure way to all die to the Thalmor.