After the Konoha Shinobi Army surrounded the Sand Ninja's central force along with the Mist Ninja, it was not only the three Kazekage who despaired. The entire Shinobi World believed that Sunagakure was finished this time.
Everyone now knew that the western battlefield had been decided. The gap in manpower between the two sides was simply too vast. Even if the three Kazekage joined forces with the Mist Ninja, they had only a hundred thousand shinobi. A comeback was impossible at most, they could launch a desperate final counterattack and inflict some casualties on Konoha. But given the relationship between those two sides, cooperation was impossible. Konoha might not even need to act before they started fighting each other first.
The entire Shinobi World only wanted to know how Skywalker intended to end this war. Anyone with eyes could see that his goal was not as simple as wiping out the two shinobi armies. Otherwise, he could have simply watched the tigers fight from the mountain and reaped the rewards after both sides were badly depleted. There had been no need to reveal Pakura, his trump card, at such a critical moment. From a certain perspective, Skywalker had let both sides off the hook.
Some speculated that Skywalker had done this to obtain some kind of benefit from Kirigakure and Sunagakure. Yet what puzzled them was that Kirigakure's homeland was already in grave danger, while Sunagakure could barely protect itself. If Konoha wished, it could even destroy both great shinobi villages. Whatever it wanted, it could simply take by force. There was no need for tricks.
Furthermore, the territories of the Land of Wind and the Land of Water had already shrunk to their limits, and their economies were buckling under the strain. Whether it was ceding land or paying