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Scott Horton

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1. “And you know what, too? Like, you would have guessed this, probably right. You probably know more about this subject than me, but it was a New York Times headline, I think, yesterday was, oh my God, look at, or maybe it was the Wall Street Journal. Look at this insane list of the kinds of drugs that all these depressed soldiers get put on. Here's 15 different psychoactive drugs all to temper the side effects of the others and whatever, where”

   2025-08-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “First of all, thank you for having me again. It's great to be with you on the show. One important statistic that you could have mentioned from the Costa War project as well is 37 million people displaced from their homes. And the same group, it was Lex, I'm telling you, it's at least five years ago. God, it's the future. Now, this may have been seven, eight years ago, that they did a study that determined that 30,000 American servicemen had blown their own brains out since then, while one way or the other, deliberately crashing their motorcycle or whatever it is. So, talk about the cost of war. That's far beyond the actual deaths in the war we had about 4,500 in Iraq and about 2,500 in Afghanistan of just official airmen, Marines and soldiers on the ground killed, plus contractors and all that.”

   2025-08-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #478 – Scott Horton: The Case Against War and the Military Industrial Complex · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source