Scott Horton’s Explosive Military Industrial Complex Talk with Lex Fridman

In a gripping 10-hour Lex Fridman Podcast episode aired on August 23, 2025, Scott Horton, director of the Libertarian Institute and a vocal critic of U.S. military interventionism, delivered a scathing critique of the military-industrial complex. Horton detailed its role in driving U.S. foreign policy, particularly the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, which he argued cost nearly a million lives and $8 trillion, citing Brown University’s Cost of War Project.

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