On one side I can see this is propaganda. You have plenty of real world scenarios of companies wasting resources on the pursuit of something that looks trivial

On one side I can see this is propaganda. You have plenty of real world scenarios of companies wasting resources on the pursuit of something that looks trivial: like electric vehicles. Yet a lot of them are pulling the plug on something that looked easy, after dumping millions into it, right? "It's just electric motors, a battery and wheels". If any government goes on a spiral to pursuit these devices it surely is a money furnace. On the other side, if this is clearly non-sense... don't they have smart people in Russia, China, etc, claiming the same? Maybe that's the genius of it all: it's so obviously propaganda non-sense that's too much obvious to be propaganda.