...somehow, this is just tasteless in the light of current events, Azur Lane Fandom withstanding...

Nah! That's just your thin skin and lack of tolerance for other's people's way of thinking that leads to real wars. Everything today has to be cancelled or censored... or invaded in order for them to shut up and be done with everything you consider bad. Yet, what you might consider bad is right for others and so the other way around.

If people learned to respect each others differences, they wouldn't be fighting old grudges from old people in the first place.