Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-34633327-20180120015359/@comment-24032889-20180123012138

Yeah Matsananimal, nothing about Volume 5 made any foreign affair problem more difficult. This was an isolated incident. Yeah, there were problems after Volume 3, but nothing escalated it further. That is unless revelations about Vacuo happen that we didn't know about (as has been discussed earlier in this thread).

Yeah, Salem is good at dividing people, but Volume 5 was a heavy loss for the villains. Cinder's death or decently long-term removal from the equation, Adam's loss of grunts for now, and Leo's death as an informant.