
I think you need to be skim reading to miss the fact that dragon is very obviously disillusioned with the Navy atp and GV is likely his turning point. Like it’s not hard to understand that Dragon joined bc 1. He wanted to help people, 2. Bc garp prolly encouraged him to. But now that he sees he’s CLEARLY not there for that, he’s gonna change
Honestly my opinion has remained the same, Roger is a pirate after all, and most pirates are pretty rowdy especially for a woman like Shakky. As for the whole “defending Celestials” thing. I think it’s pretty obviously implied that Garp/Roger didn’t mean to directly defend CDs as much as them taking out Rocks just so happened to be in the CDs benefit and so the in universe story was spun that way. Neither would willingly protect celestials.
Also the way you worded this makes it seem like you forgot this is a fucking flashback. Like, dragon isn’t “making a move” these moves got made decades ago. Dragon has yet to really do something in the current story. And to say he’s joining on the side of the WG even in this flashback is just being daft