Sounds like you think it's stupidity, because the obvious first step in "teaching what you know" is recognizing whether the situation even remotely applies. If I'm trying to teach you to deep fry with a waffle iron, I'm the dum-dum and you are my victim.

But I'll offer a third option: casual negligence driven by a lack of care for Ukrainian life. When commands things there's no expectation of success, you don't cross the Ts or dot the Is.