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Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex | Lex Fridman Podcast #478
Post-9/11 wars consumed roughly $8 trillion while producing 900,000–940,000 direct deaths, 3.6–3.8 million indirect deaths, and 37 million displaced people.Horton’s “self-licking ice cream cone” mechanism links promotion, reelection, contractor lobbying, and district-level jobs to budgets that expand after failure.The unresolved allocation risks are foregone housing and productive investment, Ukraine’s attritional war, and nuclear escalation.