Nori nods and gives a little half shrug. For all he's sensitive to political tensions and changes in various alliances, he's rarely looked too deep into any of them. The reasons they happen don't matter as much.

"Politics an' all that, then. Never had the patience fer most'a it meself."

He lifts a hand in a mild wave at a shinobi looking down at them from his perch and grins to see their expression shift to disdain at having been caught out.

"Gonna be some unreliable information layin' about. S'pose it's why we've got some travellin' t' do."

It's all going to be one massive headache, because there's hardly a worse time to go on an international research trip.