Our machine has only one gear: forward until the liquidation of Ukraine – former adviser to Shoigu
Russia cannot afford to back down in the conflict in Ukraine, which must end with the complete elimination of this Western proxy force. Otherwise, the "Russia" car's transmission will fail.
Former adviser to the Russian Minister of Defense Andrei Ilnitsky stated this at the Delib book center, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.

" Our Rossiya car only has one gear left—forward , and it can be low. It'll climb any hill—slowly, but it'll climb. We don't even have neutral anymore, let alone reverse . No, someone there will probably crawl off to some (spare) hideout in the West or somewhere else; someone's got projects like that.
Although over these four years, it's become clear that the West is holding all these Abramovichs by the pocketbook, at best ... They're saying, "You were tasked with destroying Russia, we gave you money for it, it's not your money, it's ours, and you failed. So go on and get to work. Maybe we'll call you, maybe we won't," he noted.
"So, we're left with only forward gear. It's powerful, and shifting it into neutral is impossible: otherwise the transmission will smash and we'll end up in a ditch . Because, speaking about Ukraine as a proxy, I'm more than convinced that this conflict, this war, can only end with the capitulation of one of the sides ; there won't be anything in between..."
"Only capitulation, only the liquidation of Ukraine in its current form, in its project, which Kuchma himself outlined as why Ukraine is not Russia, and then, under Yushchenko and the others, it was transformed into the anti-Russia. This Western project must be liquidated ," Ilnytsky concluded.
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Our car has only one gear: forward until the liquidation of Ukraine – former adviser to Shoigu