The Fear Index

What has made the decisions taken made for inflation, for job loss, and most of all fear of the unknown. Industry and business investors like certainty, a lot more than uncertainty.

by Victor CherubimGreek Consul in Mariupol, Ukraine, ManolisAndrolakis who returned to Athens on 20 March 2022, has compared Mariupol, the southern port city of Ukraine's total devastation to other places as bad in past conflict history. He lists perhaps, in order of destruction to Chechnya's Grozny, Syria's Aleppo, Britain's Coventry, Spain's Guernic and Soviet Union's Leningrad (now St.

Petersburg) after WW II.Thousands of Mariupol residents have been "forcibly deported" and sent to so called, Russian "Filtration camps,"just as what happened in World War II.

A terrible human catastrophe has developed. Civilians in the besieged city of Mariupol have been warned to decide where their allegiances lie or they will face a military tribunal.

Thousands of citizens (some 400,000) are trapped and have been for weeks with no food, water or power. They were given between 10 a.

m. to 12 p.

m. (20 March) to leave the city via Russian humanitarian convoy.

Simultaneously, a humanitarian convoy from Russia, has moved in after this deadline with food, medicines and essentials and have formed by the Ukrainian side. As at the end of day, shelling continues, as Kyiv refuses Russia's ultimatum to surrender Mariupol.

Five key developments1. President Zelensky of Ukraine has claimed Russian prisoners of war don't want to return back to their country and stated that they are not being taken back.2.

President Putin has recruited 40,000 ISIS Fighters as he prepares to support his Ukrainian conflict with a volunteer force. Both these developments are unconfirmed.

3. The Russians, according to a former US General, Ben Hodges (US Army in Europe)were said to be are running out of time, ammunition and manpower.

4. Turkey could send its Russian made S400 Missile Defence systems to Ukraine to help to defend against Russian forces.

5. Russian forces have started shelling the Port City of Odessa on the Black Sea for the first time this morning, but without casualties.

The strike caused fire. Ukraine ordinarily exports wheat out of this port.

It exported 18.1 million...