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There's also a lot of 'what the fuck' about his war for independence. Go west and you will enter the Reach, full of a bunch of pissed off people called the Forsworn or Reachmen. They're pissed because *they* tried fighting for their independance and Ulfric was responsible of brutally war criming them into the ground, which has left them now a lot more ruthless and violent. So his own acts come across as hypocritical. Skyrim for the Nords but not Reach for the Reachmen.

The final thing is that the war between the Empire and Skyrim is weakening them both, when the Thalmor are the common enemy that wants both dead. The peace treaty the empire signed everyone views as just 'waiting until the next war starts' and the empire needs to be prepared and strong. Ulfric has started a violent rebellion and playing into the Thalmor's hands.

TL;DR - Ulfric could be viewed as a genuine rebel fighting for the independence of his homeland, or a hypocritical idiot who has started an unnecessary bloody civil war which is weakening his homeland and his homeland's longest ally just so he can seize power and murder people.