During the Iraq war I let people gaslight me into thinking I didn't know enough about "foreign policy" and "global politics" to say the war was a bad idea.
I would hesitate because, I'm not an expert on those things.
But I was right then and I'm right now.
You don't need to be an expert, it's not "so complex and best left to high level people." You know enough to see this makes no sense.
Of all the irrelevant and out of place questions you could make...