UJM,
You won’t agree regardless, and I’m not sure you agree to the fourth point. Why haggle over step 2?
I’m not ready to go back and forth, others did that already. You can argue about many smaller aspects,, whether winning territory through a legitimate war is מרידה באומות. And I’m not all that invested in it, either.
Most people would say it’s a great development for the Jewish people, if not for being predisposed not to like it. Rav Ovadia Yosef spelled it all out, the merits and the shortcomings. You can’t ignore the Gemara in Sanhedrin 98 that אין לך קץ מגולה מזה, that the land is bearing fruit and it is a clear sign of the impending Geula. Oh, and that’s a good thing.
It’s not technically correct to say that Hashem wanted bad things to happen. כן ישיש משיש אחרים.