TRANSCRIPT:
PIKER: "The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century. Just wait, listen, maybe you’ll agree. Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner. Child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting. But America was no longer contested around the globe. And it is precisely because of the end to that multipolarity that we saw accelerated neoliberalism that is devastating every Western nation right now, unlimited and unchecked greed.Our successes are leading to our own demise and the demise in collapse of the liberal system. The U.S. has produced disaster after disaster after disaster."