User blog comment:AYET/Friends and enemies in the New World/@comment-3425840-20150712131150/@comment-3986064-20150712140232

That reason was so comical that I almost choked on a haribo XD

If you want to fix a plothol... Kill somebody!

But really, by knowing Oda, it's gonna come down to something completely unexpected. I mean really, Oda always has surprises for us. Like sepparating the crew, BB killing WB and stealing his Devil Fruit,  A Goddamn Timeskip and so on. There's plenty of plot twists so it's never too predictable. I for one, never expected the toys of Dressrossa to be humans... And also didn't expect Hody's response to be "Nothing" and many other things. Robin's betrayal, for the sake of her crew. The real CP to be the shipwrights. And I also never expected the CP9 members to be so strong. It was the first time I ever was afraid for the protagonist of a shonen series, that's how scary CP9 was for me so many years ago. And it was also a real shock when Shirahoshi turned out to be an ancient weapon of mass destruction... The list goes on and on and on. We simply have no clue whether or not something's really gonna happen. The only things we can be certain of are the islands they're gonna head to. Raftel obviously and Wano Kuni. We also know a reverie is going to happen and that the crew will meet Jinbe.

Now regarding political balance in the New World, AYET, we have only a vague ideea.

It is clear that some territories belong to the yonko's. some to other powerful pirates like the island of the Kid alliance and some are under the protection of the World Government. But all we have seen was limited to events happening across the world because of Joker's supply of weapons and after Joker was taken out. Other instances of the political powers in the New World are shown basically from the Fighter King conquering countries and also a lot of war going on between countries over there and the peace policy of Dressrossa under King Riku III. It's clear that the political landscape is extremely active with revolutionary movements, WG control, pirate-owned territories and wars between countries, but at the same time, we have no freaking clue what the hell is going on, or at least I consider that everything is still extremely vague.