And to add to that, CP9/0, especially Lucci are fully groomed and brainwashed child soldiers who happened to live long enough to become adults. I really hope this is going to be a SWORD vs CP0 arc.
How is it a plot hole? This is your classic totalitarian regime reaching it's final moments, when you're running out of enemies you can kill, you have to create new enemies of your own peers.
Since Gorosei is calling Sabo unlucky and seem surprised that he is in Lulusia, I'm thinking they had already decided to destroy all of the Rebellion Kingdoms and Sabo being there was just a coincidence. So 7 islands to go.
We don't know the timeline of things, but Sabo could also just be lying about being in Lulucia because he's well aware marines are listening. The leakers are really bringing in their own narratives regarding what is going in the story. Not convinced we're dealing with Uranus yet. Even Fujitora...
I'm laughing my ass of how I've talked lengths on how complex the corruption of The navy is. I've talked about how they are designed to create crime so they can justify their own existence and the justice they uphold and now Greenbull comes in doos kicking and literally acknowledges just that...
When Who's Who was ordered to retrieve the fruit, Gorosei probably had the tabs on it but what happened then? He failed and he was punished for it, he probably wasn't even aware of the gravity of the situation because that is literally how WG operates in everything. You fuck up, you lose face...
Yeah I think it was the moment when Shanks told them. Shanks probably didn't know what the fruit was, it was just a random raid to a ship that happened to have the gomu gomu. Shanks probably gained knowledge of the true nature of the fruit sometime after and then decided to tell to Gorosei about...
CP9 reports to the Marines, not the Gorosei. Why would they actually care? Remember that in Marineford only after Luffy CoCted unintentionally, the marines made him a priority target.