Itachi succeeded.
step 1: Itachi killed the uchiha clan, left sasuke alive, tortured him and told him to get stronger to kill him.
-> Sasuke then proceeded to go get power by any means necessary. step 1 Completed.
step 2: Itachi told sasuke to acquire the mangekyo; using the excuse that that's the only way he'd beat him.
-> sasuke decided not to do that before fighting itachi. Pending...
step3: Itachi wanted sasuke to do step 2 because he
wanted sasuke to take his eyes to get the EMS
-> sasuke forewent step 2. Pending...
-> sasuke fights bee and get MS. step 2 completed.
-> sasuke blinds himself and takes itachi's EMS. step 3 completed.
step 4: Itachi, now in the grave, only has one goal left; To get sasuke back on the good side and return to konoha a hero.
For this, itachi had a few plans; KA crow,
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-> Kabuto ****ed up itachi's KA snipe. so plan 1 failed, onto relying on naruto.
-> Naruto and sasuke are currently battling it out to save the world. step 4 currently pending...
we all know naruto will be successful and step 4 will be completed.
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It was never a one sided total manipulation when it comes to Sasuke. He also made it very clear from the beginning of each deal with each of the people you listed that it's a mutual usage of each other. Those guys manipulated Sasuke and that's a manga fact, but it's also a manga fact that Sasuke too used them all to gain something.
This is dumb. How the hell was it a mutual manipulation with itachi when Sasuke never had a clue he was ever being manipulated until itachi was killed....? EVEN then, he still went on to further complete itachi's manipulation by taking itachi's eyes and acquiring the EMS.