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The Power of Perception: When reality loses the battle by Dr Orhan Dragaš (published 31 October 2025) — Chiselbury Publishing

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · 4d

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · 8d

My new book THE POWER OF PERCEPTION – WHEN REALITY LOSES THE BATTLE, published by the British publishing house Chiselbury, is now available for pre-order. Release date: 31 October.

The book is now live on the Chiselbury site www.chiselbury.co.uk/bookstore/p/...

‘For all those who remain convinced of the significance of truth and will not surrender their right to think about it, this book is an outstanding guide, companion and inspira...

www.chiselbury.co.uk

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · 18d

Since the Nobel Committee appears deaf to Trump’s great peace achievements - such as brokering peace between Aberbaijan and Albania - perhaps he should instead be awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for this epoch-making discovery!

Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 21d

Read about Putin. Think about Trump. Do we want this? (My latest)

tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...

Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins

Don’t Expect a Ukraine Peace Deal Anytime Soon

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Sep 3

From his speeches and posts you can almost feel Trump’s sorrow — not for America, but for missing China’s WWII parade. The pain of not sitting next to Xi, Putin, Kim, Lukashenko… excluded from the autocrats’ most exclusive club.

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · Aug 23

What, no Nobel Prize?

Tomorrow’s Affairs @tmrwsaffairs.bsky.social · Aug 23

Peace in Ukraine requires more than handshakes in Washington. It requires convincing Moscow that the costs of continuing the war are unbearable - By @johnsipher.bsky.social tomorrowsaffairs.com/dont-expect-...
#UkraineRussiaWar #USRussia #Putin

Ukraine cannot and will not agree to its own dissolution, and Russia shows no sign of abandoning its imperial ambitions

Opinion: Catalog of Children and Catalog of Betrayal

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Aug 17

Ukraine’s stolen children will not remember their cities. They will remember the silence of a world that surrendered to Russian criminals.

Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/57888

Negotiations conducted without regard for dignity and life risk forgetting every Ukrainian child stolen from its parents’ arms, cataloged, filtered and absorbed into the aggressor’s history.

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Aug 3

A trade deal with the US under Trump lasts exactly as long as the press conference announcing it. After that comes executive chaos. A 15% tariff on EU goods, with no sectoral exemptions, takes effect on August 7 — despite the political agreement!

@ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jul 27

Perhaps the “Free Palestine” activists from Harvard, London, Toronto and Berlin can explain why Saudi authorities arrest pilgrims for waving the Palestinian flag.
Or are the Saudis now Zionists too?

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 24

-One Big Beautiful Bill

- We will build a beautiful Mediterranean Riviera in Gaza

- These are beautiful tariffs on imported goods into the U.S.

- Congratulations on a beautiful peace between Iran and Israel

These are not quotes from the famous psychiatric thriller "Sybil".

(But they could be.)

Russian revenge for Serbian independence

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EUalive @eualive.bsky.social · Jun 20

Russian revenge for Serbian independence eualive.net/russian-reve... Op-ed by @odragas.bsky.social

On 11 June, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić made a historic trip to Odesa, Ukraine, marking ...

eualive.net

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 24

Yugoslav Nobel laureate Ivo Andrić once said: "If people knew how little intelligence governs the world – they would die of fear."

I would add: and how much of it is sick.

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Russian state outlet "RIA Novosti" has issued an open threat to President Vučić. The phrase “Serbia will never be anti-Russian” is not a suggestion, nor a position — it is an ultimatum. A command! Russia’s message is clear: loyalty is expected, sovereignty is denied.
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ria.ru/20250617/serbi…

https://ria.ru/20250617/serbi…

Opinion: Zelensky Shows NATO With Action How to Defend the Freedom It Preaches

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 15

If I were in Putin’s place, I’d mock Trump and all the fools who fear him. He has every right to be cynical, every right to ridicule them. The orange clown both fears him and admires him.

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 3

Everyone who doubted Ukraine’s capacity to resist the largest army in Europe is now silent. Because truth is louder than propaganda. That truth now resonates in the ruined engines of Russian aircraft, which are no longer capable of flight.

www.kyivpost.com/opinion/53856

Without Ukraine, NATO risks becoming just another ineffectual club with expensive aircraft and hollow words. With Ukraine, it would be a meaningful alliance.

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Jun 2

The Russians don’t know what’s worse — that they failed to detect a Ukrainian truck carrying drones crossing the border and traveling hundreds of kilometers, or the possibility that Ukrainian operatives planned the entire mission from inside Russia.

Negotiations with Russia are not possible unless it is forced to do so

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · May 18

“Putin will seriously sit down at the negotiating table – but only when continuing the war becomes more expensive and dangerous for the regime than ending it.”

tomorrowsaffairs.com/negotiations...

Real negotiations with Russia are only possible when it is forced to sit at the table because it has to, not because it wants more time

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · May 10

Henry Kissinger paraphrased the words of philosopher Rostand and said:
"If you kill one person, you're a murderer; if you kill ten, you're a mass murderer; but if you kill hundreds - the US negotiates with you."

Today they are negotiating and begging Putin to stop killing.

Opinion: Monument to Cynicism: Russia Celebrates ‘Truth’ While Killing Journalists

Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · May 4

Narcissistic.
Ruthless.
Poorly educated.
Immoral.
Egotistical demagogue.
Instinctive manipulator.
Political arsonist.
Populist autocrat.
Verbal bully.
Preacher of fear.
Billionaire with a victim complex.
Showman without substance.
Constitutional vandal.

CONTINUE THE LIST!

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · May 3

“When the Russian ambassador in Belgrade organizes a propaganda event in the capital of a European country, he is not spreading culture but cynically testing the extent of our passivity.”

www.kyivpost.com/opinion/51944

Russia’s “Died for the Truth” exhibition in Belgrade celebrates its journalists who have exposed “Ukraine’s crimes” while ignoring its attitude to the “Fourth Estate.”

Opinion: Putin’s ‘Easter Truce’: Lies as Weapons, Western Silence as Complicity

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · May 2

It will be a pleasure to tell @harvard.edu students that globalization is not an ideology but a process-the very reason we have today’s medicine, technology, and knowledge.
Those who speak of its “end” are either opportunistic populists or simply ignorant of the world they live in.

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Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD @odragas.bsky.social · Apr 26

Trump: “Russia’s concession? Not taking all of Ukraine.”

Three years ago, they planned to take Kyiv in 3 days. Trump’s been president for 4 months.

Now he sells their failure as his peace deal.

Hypocrisy isn’t strategy!

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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · Apr 21

“The West should not be fooled by any “gestures of good will” coming from Moscow. They are always calculated to influence the information space in Russia’s favor.”

www.kyivpost.com/opinion/51174

The West should not be fooled by any “gestures of good will” coming from Moscow. They are always calculated to influence the information space in Russia’s favor.