This would make sense if, for example, it were World War 2 and most production lines had to shift to support literally defeating the Nazis.

This is not that.

So every public infrastructure project in every country is cause for a reminder of the dumbassery going on here? Both projects are coming out of taxpayer money, and that’s where the similarity ends and the non sequitur-ness begins. As you say, one is actually being used for something useful.

If you want to talk about wasted money, how about that bridge in India with a 90° turn? At least that one is, you know, a bridge.

Talk about a non sequitur

I mean, a rule of thumb is more of a guideline that acknowledges the existence of exceptions

How high are you right now?

I dunno, were those Boeing crashes caused by a war-induced parts shortage?