Keep in mind, many of the people Pompeo wish to brainwash are very impressionable. They are the sort of people that do not read beyond a headline and/or claims and do not or cannot perform any proper analysis. The likes Pompeo understand the average person is ignorant in such military issues to realise these fallacies. Another famous example is their claim that Iran testing ballistic missiles means Iran is after nuclear weapons because "they are only used for nuclear weapons". Of course they know this is not technically true, but they understand they can get away with making these claims to form their narrative in the mind of their average populace.
