Board Thread:Theories and Speculation/@comment-34436445-20180613173319/@comment-734582-20180701144113

Alpharex1 wrote: Have you considered that an entire clan has less than 200 people shinobi and non-shinobi? We don't actually know how big the Uchiha clan is. Nor do we know the exact make-up and population of Konoha. We do know, however, that the Uchiha were the strongest clan in the Village. We also know it's a village, with a large fraction of non-shinobi. Alpharex1 wrote: Not all Shinobi Uchiha had matured sharingan We similarly don't know how many Uchiha have Sharingan. We do know that other villages considered fighting a Sharingan user a guaranteed loss. Alpharex1 wrote: Itachi was konoha's spy but these people already knew since tobirama's rule that defection was a possibility. Sure, but the effectiveness of a coup depends on the details. If someone like Itachi was willing to be the frontline, there's not much Konoha could do to stop him, other than killing him before the fighting started. It would also be idiotic for the Uchiha to fight with the Village at maximum strength. The ideal time to strike is during a moment of high activity, when many jonin are out on missions. All of this requires Intel, which was Itachi's job.