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I'm pretty sure the idea behind backing the dwarves to kill Smaug was to deny Sauron a potential asset when the war started.
That may have been written in after the fact, but the War of the Ring had not yet been conceptualized when Tolkien was writing The Hobbit. It was a standalone story for his kids