"I'm afraid it's more than that. As major powers, and with Kirigakure's situation still unclear, Iwagakure and Kumogakure are currently the strongest villages.
"Until they face an enormous threat, they likely won't become any more wary of Akatsuki.
"After all, it's just an underground organization exploiting loopholes in the major powers to siphon off resources."
Tobitake Tonbo offered his own analysis.
Jiraiya said, "Tonbo is right. That old man Ōnoki hired Akatsuki quite a few times while they were active, sending them on violent missions.
"It seemed he wanted to create a sense of crisis, so the Land of Earth wouldn't cut off Iwagakure's funding.
"During peacetime, ninja villages consume too much funding, so he wanted to keep the Land of Earth's higher-ups from considering military budget cuts."
"Mm, I'm afraid some people among the Land of Earth's upper ranks would be happy with that.
"That way, they wouldn't need to care about what ordinary citizens thought. After all, if there was danger, civilians would want to sacrifice benefits in exchange for safety," Shikaku said.
Tsunade said, "It's not just the Land of Earth. It merely hired Akatsuki most heavily. The Land of Lightning and the Land of Water have similar situations, only to varying degrees."
"Decades of peace have probably lowered every nation's guard," Tobitake Tonbo sighed.
Because Akatsuki was not a force like a ninja village, but merely consisted of rogue ninja from various villages, the nations saw it as nothing more than a tool they could use at will.
As long as Akatsuki did not establish a ninja training institution like the Ninja Academy, it was simply a tool to the Five Great Ninja Villages.
So unless they felt the pain themselves, they would not take it seriously.
An old hand like Ōnoki had used Akatsuki to