Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD
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Trump calls a Ukraine “peace” deal close while ignoring Russia’s strikes. He treats Ukraine’s resistance as the problem, twisting the war into Kyiv’s “stubbornness” instead of Russian aggression. Are Ukrainians guilty for resisting Russian crimes?
November 29, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Trump calls a Ukraine “peace” deal close while ignoring Russia’s strikes. He treats Ukraine’s resistance as the problem, twisting the war into Kyiv’s “stubbornness” instead of Russian aggression. Are Ukrainians guilty for resisting Russian crimes?
“Through the company NIS, Russia is financing covert intelligence operations in Serbia and
across the Balkans, using it as a channel to pay its network of agents" said Orhan Dragas for @wsj.com
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across the Balkans, using it as a channel to pay its network of agents" said Orhan Dragas for @wsj.com
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U.S. Sanctions Loosen Russia’s Grip on Serbia by Forcing Sale of Oil Company
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is in talks to buy Russia’s stake in energy behemoth NIS, according to an official U.S. document seen by The Wall Street Journal.
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November 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
“Through the company NIS, Russia is financing covert intelligence operations in Serbia and
across the Balkans, using it as a channel to pay its network of agents" said Orhan Dragas for @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
across the Balkans, using it as a channel to pay its network of agents" said Orhan Dragas for @wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
"The most dangerous lie is the one that feels true.”
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November 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
"The most dangerous lie is the one that feels true.”
The book "The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle" now available through leading booksellers:
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The book "The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle" now available through leading booksellers:
@chiselbury.bsky.social
@waterstones.bsky.social
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Delighted to see "The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle" available at @waterstones.bsky.social, the leading name in British bookselling.
A true honour to stand among remarkable authors whose ideas have found their readers here.
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A true honour to stand among remarkable authors whose ideas have found their readers here.
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November 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Delighted to see "The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle" available at @waterstones.bsky.social, the leading name in British bookselling.
A true honour to stand among remarkable authors whose ideas have found their readers here.
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A true honour to stand among remarkable authors whose ideas have found their readers here.
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"Truth is no longer about what is right but what feels right".
The Power of Perception
- When Reality Loses the Battle by @odragas.bsky.social
As we see with the populist radical right, feelings of "better pasts", incl. authoritarian nostalgias, increasingly stimulate radical right electorates.
The Power of Perception
- When Reality Loses the Battle by @odragas.bsky.social
As we see with the populist radical right, feelings of "better pasts", incl. authoritarian nostalgias, increasingly stimulate radical right electorates.
The Power of Perception: When reality loses the battle by Dr Orhan Dragaš (published 31 October 2025) — Chiselbury Publishing
‘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...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
"Truth is no longer about what is right but what feels right".
The Power of Perception
- When Reality Loses the Battle by @odragas.bsky.social
As we see with the populist radical right, feelings of "better pasts", incl. authoritarian nostalgias, increasingly stimulate radical right electorates.
The Power of Perception
- When Reality Loses the Battle by @odragas.bsky.social
As we see with the populist radical right, feelings of "better pasts", incl. authoritarian nostalgias, increasingly stimulate radical right electorates.
Truth no longer wins because it’s right—it wins if it feels right.
The Power of Perception by @odragas.bsky.social out now and available from @chiselbury.bsky.social Amazon, @waterstonesorm.bsky.social wherever else you get your books
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The Power of Perception by @odragas.bsky.social out now and available from @chiselbury.bsky.social Amazon, @waterstonesorm.bsky.social wherever else you get your books
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The Power of Perception: When reality loses the battle by Dr Orhan Dragaš (published 31 October 2025) — Chiselbury Publishing
‘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...
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October 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Truth no longer wins because it’s right—it wins if it feels right.
The Power of Perception by @odragas.bsky.social out now and available from @chiselbury.bsky.social Amazon, @waterstonesorm.bsky.social wherever else you get your books
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The Power of Perception by @odragas.bsky.social out now and available from @chiselbury.bsky.social Amazon, @waterstonesorm.bsky.social wherever else you get your books
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As the Hungarian prime minister echoes Kremlin propaganda and calls not for an end to the war but for capitulation, Europe must stand up for conscience, resistance, and hope.
Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
Opinion: Viktor Orbán and the Art of Surrender share.google/YeKWIl5hmOdH...
Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
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Opinion: Viktor Orbán and the Art of Surrender
As the Hungarian prime minister echoes Kremlin propaganda and calls not for an end to the war but for capitulation, Europe must stand up conscience, resistance, and hope.
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October 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
As the Hungarian prime minister echoes Kremlin propaganda and calls not for an end to the war but for capitulation, Europe must stand up for conscience, resistance, and hope.
Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
Opinion: Viktor Orbán and the Art of Surrender share.google/YeKWIl5hmOdH...
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NATO today exists only on paper — like Schrödinger’s cat, both alive and dead at the same time. It exists in theory, but not in practice. Alive in statements, dead in action.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/62463
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/62463
Opinion: NATO – Schrödinger’s Cat in Uniform
NATO currently exists in a state of quantum superposition.
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October 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
NATO today exists only on paper — like Schrödinger’s cat, both alive and dead at the same time. It exists in theory, but not in practice. Alive in statements, dead in action.
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/62463
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/62463
"What makes this book stand out is its composure: Dragaš doesn’t dramatize the collapse of truth — he measures it, dissects it, and shows that behind every algorithm and viral lie stands a person who has given up thinking".
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Book Review: The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle
Frequent Kyiv Post contributor, Dr. Orhan Dragaš, offers readers a deep-dive into the post-truth phenomenon with a new book, shedding light on Russia’s information war.
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October 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
"What makes this book stand out is its composure: Dragaš doesn’t dramatize the collapse of truth — he measures it, dissects it, and shows that behind every algorithm and viral lie stands a person who has given up thinking".
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Why does the American government “have such a monopoly over the investigation of what was a transnational criminal network…Why has the U.S. President been allowed to exercise so much control over a transnational criminal investigation in which he is implicated”
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The transnational dimension of the Epstein case—a hybrid warfare against the West
The Epstein case is not an issue about Trump and the US but rather about all the Trumps of the Western world with ties to Russia
tomorrowsaffairs.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Why does the American government “have such a monopoly over the investigation of what was a transnational criminal network…Why has the U.S. President been allowed to exercise so much control over a transnational criminal investigation in which he is implicated”
tomorrowsaffairs.com/the-transnat...
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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/...
The book is now live on the Chiselbury site www.chiselbury.co.uk/bookstore/p/...
The Power of Perception: When reality loses the battle by Dr Orhan Dragaš (published 31 October 2025) — Chiselbury Publishing
‘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
October 2, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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/...
The book is now live on the Chiselbury site www.chiselbury.co.uk/bookstore/p/...
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!
September 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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!
Reposted by Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD
Read about Putin. Think about Trump. Do we want this? (My latest)
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Putin’s Lies Hide Weakness
Russia has thrived on lies for centuries; its undoing will come when truth proves more powerful than the fictions it desperately spins
tomorrowsaffairs.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Read about Putin. Think about Trump. Do we want this? (My latest)
tomorrowsaffairs.com/putins-lies-...
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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.
September 3, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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.
Reposted by Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD
What, no Nobel Prize?
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-...
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Don’t Expect a Ukraine Peace Deal Anytime Soon
Ukraine cannot and will not agree to its own dissolution, and Russia shows no sign of abandoning its imperial ambitions
tomorrowsaffairs.com
August 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What, no Nobel Prize?
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
Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/57888
Opinion: Catalog of Children and Catalog of Betrayal
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.
www.kyivpost.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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
Op-Ed for @kyivpost.com
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/57888
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
@ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
August 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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
@ec.europa.eu @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu
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?
Or are the Saudis now Zionists too?
July 27, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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?
Or are the Saudis now Zionists too?
-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.)
- 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.)
June 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
-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.)
- 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.)
Reposted by Prof. Orhan Dragaš, PhD
Russian revenge for Serbian independence eualive.net/russian-reve... Op-ed by @odragas.bsky.social
Russian revenge for Serbian independence
On 11 June, Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić made a historic trip to Odesa, Ukraine, marking ...
eualive.net
June 20, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Russian revenge for Serbian independence eualive.net/russian-reve... Op-ed by @odragas.bsky.social
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.
I would add: and how much of it is sick.
June 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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.
I would add: and how much of it is sick.