There’s another angle as to why Trump went when he did, the Israeli elections….Bibi may get tossed and then any move may be harder, if a new admin is too weak……Now they are involved.
I realise such thinking is anethma to isolationists, but when you are the Big Dog such problems are yours to deal with….when we ruled we had to take such decisions, which was why we had such a massive navy….once we had well over 1400 ships, to keep the world as we wanted it.