I understand you, but the evidence (to me) indicates that the cargo vessel was not bearing down on the Fitzgerald as if it were coming broadside, particularly if the two vessels are traveling in much the same direction in the dark.
Rather than the seemingly far-fetched (to me) scenario of a 30,000 ton cargo ship chasing down and steering an intercept course to deliberately ram a vessel a third of its size and far more agile and speedy, it is far more likely to me that even if the watches on the Fitzgerald had been aware of the vessel, the interpretation of the relative courses in the dark may not have seemed threatening until it became threatening.
I have been told, and I believe it, that overtaking another vessel traveling in the same direction at night in close proximity is not a slam dunk deal.
Also, nothing against the Navy, but they have far more to lose by admitting they weren’t able to transmit a message for close to an hour, and had to resort to satellite phones to do it. With the Captain injured or incapacitated, and the ship taking on water and listing, I believe there was pandemonium on the bridge of the Fitzgerald, and trying to find a working sat phone may not have been their primary concern off the bat.
There are a large number of people who seem to WANT this to be some kind of act of terrorism, and until all the evidence is in, I won’t rule it out, but in the many cases of ship and aircraft mishaps, it is the fallibility of humans (sometimes compounded by an equipment malfunction of some kind) that is the culprit.
but we’re talking about the fallibilities of dozens of sailors....how is that possible?...