The White Gold Concordat is in fact the Treaty of Nanking---Thalmor are East India Company agents & Anglican Preachers. Ulfric is most charitably the leader of a Yihequan-equivalent, nativist reactionaries and chauvinists who while appropriately targeted at a foreign aggressor are too weak to change things because they lack a revolutionary understanding. a new Nord state with extra navel-gazing and mysticism will not magically become strong enough to challenge the foreign barbarians, no matter how many minorities they decide to pogrom.