Independent North

[Roux]

What is the point of having the North in the Seven Kingdoms at this point? The southern kingdoms provide food even as winter sets in. Use of the north serves to protect from wildlings and others- with wildlings made friends and NK+ defeated they have become pointless for the next couple- few thousand years. I feel like if the north remained part of the seven kingdoms the southern kingdoms would carry them for the next however long this winter is. And there's no one to protect against; the next generations would become soft. There is the appeal of having a whole continent under one rule but how far does that really carry? the wildlings have been a separate kingdom so to speak on that continent forever.