What is the motivation for the things going on?

1) US and China work together on a virus that kills
2) DOD has the cure forces it on the western world even kills African presidents that refuse to play
3) Tyrant of NZ is rewarded with Harvard professorship to lockdown AIs
4) Musk and Schumer meet to lockdown AIs
5) Ukraine slow war
6) 5th gen warfare against US
7) Southern border open and now troops to southern border?
Everybody running for president