Why the hell would you sail a warship around without any munitions…?
Because they were invited to an international naval exercise that required them to be unarmed...
Yeah, no one's arguing that whoever was ordered to push the button was ordered to push the button, the point is that it was a shitty order to give.
It's also rich to be like "we had to attack them, we're at war", when you illegally and unilaterally started the war several days earlier.
Also a fair point