What are your opinions on Itachi?

[Yukimura]

While I see how what you say could have been you make too many assumptions for me to be comfortable with your theory being what would have happened. I wouldn't assume the state of readiness the Uchiha's were at before Itachi was ordered to act. We'll also never know what their plan of attack would have been because we don't know exactly how the power structure of the village works beyond the characters that have been introduced.

It's certainly within the realm of possibility but I don't think it makes sense that the Uchiha could rise from being a segregated police clan watched by ANBU and kept out of politics to being in control of the village without generating mistrust among the less informed 2nd tier of political power in the village and also going against the ANBU who had been watching over them for signs of rebellion since the time of the second Hokage.

The people in the 2nd tier would know of the Uchiha's role as a police force, but would have to have noticed that they were never involved in any village politics before and be suspicious about their sudden seizure of control in the aftermath of the death of several village elders. And from the way Itachi was so counted on by his dad it doesn't seem like there was much, if any, penetration of the ANBU by the other Uchiha members. Even with Itachi's help for them to be able to undermine the efforts of the ANBU in trying to stop them without arousing anyone's suspicions that foul play was involved is a bit of a stretch for me to believe.

Since I don't believe a clandestine takeover would have worked based on the political position of the Uchiha before the coup and I no longer view the Uchiha as the warrior gods they were made out to be earlier I can't see them doing anything but causing an open war between at the least themselves and the ANBU. After hearing the self proclaimed strongest Uchiha reference the fact that at their peak they could only match the actions of the Senju and force draws I have cemented my belief that the Uchiha as a whole were not an unbeatable God clan, just extremely competent and blessed with a powerful bloodline trait. Itachi was recognized as a completely broken freak in terms of talent and other than him and his less broken brother the only other measures of Uchiha ability we have are the former leader and possibly strongest ever a kid who completely sucked balls. It's obvious they have a great natural ability and enormous potential but beneath all the lore and such they are still just as mortal as everyone else.



I'm going to preemptively snark now just in case and to save time later.

We are speculating about events in Naruto that will probably never be explained meaning the Abdula Assumptions Are Not Wrong Principle applies. You're right because your basing your analysis on your assumptions which can't be wrong because you made them. The only way an assumption could possibly be 'wrong' would be if it was in contrast to something that was stated in canonical material. However it's been empirically shown enough that in the realm of Naruto the AAANW Principle is stronger than the canon of the Naruto manga that I believe it to be a fundamental law of Naruto.

Because I have posted assumptions different and contrary to yours I am knowingly disagreeing with something that is not wrong. It follows that I am stupid and makes my post worthless because stupid people's posts should never be taken seriously. I fully admit that I am stupid for not agreeing with you Abdula as you are the prophet of Kishimoto and nothing we'll never be told in Naruto could have ever happened in a way that contradicts the way you've hypothesized and I apologize to anyone who wasted their time reading this far as they should have just skipped my post as Abdula has already revealed the truth of the matter as it would have been.