We don’t KNOW anything about what was happening to these sailors.
It’s not right to make these kinds of judgments about them without KNOWING.
fyi, the Iranian regime is very experienced at coercion that doesn’t show evidence of obvious harm, including psychological methods.
Also, you have no idea what kinds of instructions these sailors were given with respect to behavior should they be captured. Maybe they were following the orders of their superiors.
IOW - We don’t Know enough to denigrate their character or cast aspersions or make judgments.
Fine, we don’t KNOW what happened. But as I’ve said, what we do KNOW is not encouraging vis-a-vis the unwimpiness of the soldiers (if not following “capitulate” orders), or their leaders (if such orders were given), or both.