Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-31278419-20170217002708/@comment-31278419-20170217035746

That plan is even dumber though. The point of taking over the village is to have something to take over. The Ninetails would have obliterated the village decimating forces leaving the land of fire very open to invasion. Madara was shown to be the only one to be able to control the Ninetails via summoning it. Maybe Obito to some extent, but regardless this was after Minato sealed half of the ninetails in his son making it weaker. The village likely would have been able to survive that attack, especially if Jiraya was in the village at the time.

Why not just abandon the village since they weren't wanted? Would have been simpler and better for everyone's health. Still if they had more aid from the outside or some allies withing the village along with the ninetails they may have been able to pull it off. They however did not have any of those things. Naruto was likely under constant surveillance when he was a child so if they made a move on him then all hell would of broken loose.