At that point, Naruto finally lost his temper. He pointed at Itachi and demanded, "So according to you, the Uchiha couldn't stage a coup to escape their oppression, and leaving Konoha might weaken the village enough for the other villages to attack it?"
"So in your eyes, the Uchiha were doomed no matter what?"
Itachi looked at Naruto and said quietly, "I told you. You'll never understand me. You haven't experienced the horrors of war."
"Bullshit!" Naruto roared at this paranoid freak who had betrayed his own people. "Uchiha Itachi, let me tell you something. All of this happened because of your ignorance, immaturity, naïveté, and groundless fears."
"What did you say?" Itachi's voice instantly turned icy.
"The Uchiha had roughly three thousand members, but only about a hundred were ninja. Of those hundred, only around forty were Chunin, and fewer than ten were Jonin. And you actually thought losing that force would be enough to make other nations declare war on Konoha?"
"Itachi, you grasped a few shallow ideas about the so-called hokage philosophy, then naïvely assumed Konoha would be attacked from all sides if it lost the Uchiha. You think war is cruel? Do you think the leaders and daimyo of the other four countries don't know that?"
Naruto took a step forward with every sentence, while Itachi's expression shifted and he kept retreating.
"You know nothing about the delicate relationship between a hidden village's Kage and its daimyo. Even if the other nations' Kage had wanted war back then, would their daimyo, senior officials, and financial conglomerates have agreed?"
"All you saw in war was the loss of countless lives. But do you know how much manpower, material, and money it takes to wage one? Do you really think the Kage of the other four countries could