Well well … old tactics. If all else fails throw Erdogan into the breach. Any path to ‘negotiations’ with Iran is good enough.

The person in charge of censorship for Israel over at X is their new head of product, Nikita Bier.

He’s apparently unhinged and rants about the Holocaust and sees it as his mission to censor people who criticize Israel.

He’s allegedly the reason for these bizarre, Zionist…

— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) January 28, 2026

More Oreshnik talk .. just basically passing messages from that list to this list .. Yikes ..

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As I understand it, very imperfectly, it is being suggested that the speed of the Oreshnik (Mach 10.6) is enough to strip a whole lot of electrons from the surface of the metal rods, but they continue very close to the metal and build up enough electrons to cause a Coulomb explosion more or less simultaneously with hitting the target. See the foot of this Wikipedia page for a similar effect:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_explosion

PS If I get time, I will try again with the video provided by Andrei Martyanov.

and then ..

Scott Ritter says that the first Oreshnik fired at Dnipro was hand-made, and they went from there to serial production (25 per week) and crew training to launch in just over a year. Oreshnik can mean a cluster of hazel nuts, and so the six metal alloy rods in each of the six canisters would be released quite close to the target. Then the friction from being directly exposed to the air at such high speeds would strip off the electrons to produce the Coulomb explosion in each within the precise area of the target. One can tell from a photo of the launch truck in Belarus (which only has 8 wheels) that the rocket is not nearly as heavy as an ICBM. So they presumably move around in forested areas, just like a Yars ICBM. The time from Belarus to Warsaw is about 2 minutes. Time to the Gairloch near Glasgow or Cape Finistere in France (where British and French nuclear submarines are located, along with the nuclear warheads) is well within the OODA loop. [Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.] Why European NATO member states think that they could take on Russia now, when Putin has stated that decision-making centres would be targeted, including presumably Northwood just outside Greater London, is a mystery. Brussels is even closer.

I received this from our Group of Friends, and it is titled Controversy Emerging.  This is not my field or my bag.

I am aware of various critiques of Professor Ted Postol’s comments about the Oreshnik missile. I for one have no animosity towards him, but Andrei Martyanov was a bit bad tempered about his remarks. Martyanov referred to a short commentary in Russian and said that one did not need to speak Russian to understand this, but I for one found that the speaker swallowed his words, and I struggled to make sense of it. I shall try to find time to return to this, but it seems to be the case that Professor Postol does not know what a Coulomb explosion is. The answer can be found in Wikipedia. I can well believe that Putin is right that two of these missiles on the same target would give an explosion that equalled a nuclear one.

The account that I read of the impact of the original Oreshnik attack on Dnipro was that it created a precise rectangular crater four stories deep on the target. That suggests that the 36 warheads spread out in a precise pattern in a manner similar to the barometric MLRS system known as Solntsepyok. [The latter is usually referred to in English by its other designation TS… with a number that I have forgotten offhand.]

Here is a recent comment by a Russian:

S, 25 Jan 2026:

Prof Ted Postol is not a chemist

I freely admit I have my biases with regards to Oreshnik, after all I wrote a highly detailed, inference-driven hypothesis on what I believe the warhead to be (https://t.me/Slavyangrad/116233) (specifically, a tungsten-aluminium based energetic structural material, with the possible addition of an oxidizer, a possible candidate I suggested being potassium chlorate – KClO3). As the author of that hypothesis, I am invested in eventually seeing images or other data which proves or disproves it (preferably the former).

Therefore, in the absence of new hard data, anything I say – beyond what I already did in my previous articles – must be firmly grounded in scientific rules and laws of physics or chemistry which are well established, will never change and cannot be disputed. Engaging in any more inference deduction logic than I already have would take me firmly into magic carpet territory, and I might as well just start writing science fiction about the 3I/ATLAS comet being a spaceship piloted by alien furries…

What am I talking about and what does Ted Postol have to do with it? Well, last week he gave almost identical interviews to Mr Glenn Dieson and also Col Daniel Davis, where he described his updated views on how the Oreshnik system works.

Given his credentials and his audience and also my limited time, I will not nitpick the entire thing as much as I would like to – however one thing he said stuck out like a sore thumb to me, because it went squarely against hard scientific facts.

In a major departure from his 2024 assessment claiming the munitions were stainless steel dummies, Postol speculated that Oreshnik munitions were likely made with tungsten and also mentioned aluminium (though he made no mention of ESMs, nor did he go into any level of detail). Anyone who read my articles knows that I agree with this, except for what he said next – he said the munitions likely included a quantity of TNT. Why? Because, he claimed, TNT when detonated produces “lots of oxygen”.

I want to be clear – A TNT detonation does NOT produce any free oxygen (O₂) or any other oxidizer gas/molecule as a product. The balanced equation for TNT detonation shows its primary products are:

2 C₇H₅N₃O₆ → 3 N₂ + 5 H₂O + 7 CO + 7 C

I am not going to speculate on Prof. Postol’s reasons for saying what he did. During his talks he also stated that he is “not a chemist”. His claim that a TNT explosion produces oxygen proves that he is indeed not a chemist. It also calls into question the rest of his discussion.

As I said I am highly pressed for time, so I invite all technically-minded Slavyangrad readers to have a listen to Prof. Postol’s recent interviews or read through the transcripts. I am interested to know whether his gaffe about TNT or any other high explosive making oxygen when it goes boom is an isolated error, or one of many. [end.]