His entire scheme made zero sense. He gave experimental and therefore suspicious weaponry to mercs and had them infiltrate the ranks of random African rebels in the hopes that Lois Lane would go over to cover the story with Secret CIA Agent Jimmy Olsen and that she would be captured so Superman would come and save her at the same time mercs shot rebels so the American government would blame Superman from gun-related deaths in a war zone in another country and ask him to come to a hearing to explain himself so Lex could have a former Wayne employee who irrationally hated Superman ride a jihadi wheelchair bomb into a hearing and kill a bunch of politicians so Superman would be blamed for even more deaths via conventional weaponry and then the government would be so anti-Superman that they'd freely give Lex access to a ruined space ship and an alien corpse so he could gain their power and turn it against Superman because....?