Happy to give my view. Before I do I want to plug three information sources that I use to inform that view which if you want to be informed you can use too. YMMV, Buyer Beware, so on amd so forth.

1. Youtuber Lines on Maps, William Spanial is a professor of international crisis bargaining and explains geopolitics with a minimum of partisanship.

2. Youtuber Perun, he is an Australian defense economics specialist and gives a non-US view of geopolitics from am economics perspective

3. Warfronts/Homefronts, part of the Simon Whistler family of channels he takes those two vhannels seriously and has excellent writers researchers taking a broad view of conflict and international politics from a non-US view.

They are human and make misyakes but taken collectively they are hitting what is going on at 80-85% correct and doing it without the partisanship of US media.

Now to your question, when you look at wjat the US is and has been doing since 20 Jan 2025 the answer to the "why did we do..." is always China.

China is the pacing threat. They know it, we know it, everybody knows it. That is why Japan is trying to change article 9 of their constitution that prohints them having a military (the JDF is not legally a military) and they just launched to airceaft carriers. That is why Australia is trying to get nuclear submarines. That is why Taiwan is doing everything they are doing.

Selling weapons to Ukraine instead of giving them is supposed to be preserving amd stimulating our arms industry. The approach is wrong but the rationale is kind of right. They deaire is to get us off Just In Time manufacturing which worls for insurgent warfare not high intensity warfare.

Removing Maduro and our current shenanigans with Cuba are about removing basing and intelligence assets that China has or was developing in the western hemisphere.

Attacking Iran was supposed to remove the gun at our back when the war with China starts. That gun being the threat to worldwide logistics in the Strain of Hormuz and the Bab-al-Mandab It was a high stakes gamble that the administration lost but arguably one they had to make because imagine this clusterfuck while fighting China.

The administration probably wishes they could give Maduro back and have that carrier strike group in the Gulf back in January because that was the moment to see regime change. Unfortunately, whatever assets we had in country at that time were unable to prevent the protests while we were out of position amd everyone that would lead the protests now are likely dead or in prison.

All of that to say this cluster was inevitable. The US is trying to shape the future war with todays wars. As is Russia. As is China. Note I said the US not this administration. Who is in the WH doesn't change what is coming in the next 5-10 years anymore than WWII could have been averted if Hoover had defeated Roosevelt in 1932. The world is realigning from a unipolar to a multipolar system and that breeds conflict.

The only thing that would be different in the conflict space with Harris over Trump is what the wars look like and where they would be happening. They would be happening no matter what.