“””These 7th Fleet collisions are utterly inexplicable, and unprecedented. How could these warships simply wander into harm’s way? Something mysterious is going on.”””
These accidents are not inexplicable, unprecedented, or mysterious. Keep in mind the Navy brass has the tracking data on each of these Navy ships involved in these collisions.
If we had access to the tracking data of the Fitzgerald and the McCain, we would see how obvious the collisions happened.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlrA36GzHNs
Any passage through the Straits of Malaysia requires increased diligence. Why did the watches aboard the U.S. Navy vessels utterly fail to notice the behemoth freighters bearing down on them?