Faced with Madara Uchiha's critique of the One Country, One Village System, the Kage of the Five Great Shinobi Villages all fell silent.
Given their status and stature, it was destined that their vision and insight could not possibly be poor.
Did they not know the dangers of the One Country, One Village System?
They knew!
Pity was, they were not Hashirama Senju, and they lacked the ability to overthrow the system.
Moreover, they needed to engage in a passive, desperate arms race under the framework of this system, continuously cultivating new shinobi and sending them to the battlefield.
If one side were to halt the arms race, what awaited them would be the fate of village and national destruction.
Had it not been for the meddling of the Ōtsutsuki descendants and things developed according to logic, the future of this shinobi world would have been decided between Cloud Village and Stone Village.
The Bloody Mist Policy of the Village Hidden in the Mist had been initiated since the Third Mizukage, and Obito merely expanded and continued it further, yet precisely because of this policy, it had long since harmed the foundations of the Village Hidden in the Mist.
In the Hidden Sand Village, Sasori of the Red Sand, the most gifted genius, assassinated the Third Kazekage. Pakura of the Scorch Release, one of the few bloodline limit shinobi in Sand, was sold out to an enemy village by Rasa because the latter feared his position as Kazekage was unstable, completely severing the Scorch Release bloodline of Sand. With a madman of a Kazekage like Rasa, the Hidden Sand Village was doomed to decline eventually.
Konoha Village was the shinobi village with the greatest foundation in the shinobi world: the Senju Clan, Uchiha Clan, Hyuga Clan, Kurama Clan, Aburame Clan,