Well even if IT hung around, I dont see how they could do anything except roam right now without the support of Atlas.
-A- has had pretty terrible participation and the only entities that actually seem to be totally invested in the war from the beginning are IT/ROL/INIT.
You guys were doing decent moon wise before Atlas and -A- joined up, but SOV wise we repelled everything you threw at us. The Sov mechanics made it really easy for us to defend though I will concede, we just set all the important shit to US TZ, or tried to at least.
Overall I would say the SC was terribly unorganized, they didnt act as one entity, share the same comms, commit fully to the effort, and the FC's made horrendous decisions. For example the first Atlas cap fight in NCGR where Atlas lost about 60 caps. All they had to do was take out a JB pos, but instead they take the bait and lose a shitload of caps totally eliminating all the momentum they had.
I have no doubt that the NC wouldnt be standing right now if the SC leadership hadnt made such poor decisions, H-W and otherwise.