Flying a manned aircraft into a collision with an unmanned aircraft is pilot incompetence.

Ordering a human pilot to fly into a collision with an unmanned aircraft is command incompetence.

The attempts here to backsplain this ridiculousness is maddening. Why is a plot-twisting-conspiracy easier to accept than the far more likely explanation that an undertrained russian pilot decided to risk his plane and his life to fuck around and buzz the unmanned drone he ran across?