I think understanding that as long as people in Iran can keep building Shahed drones in their homes and garages all over Iran and launch them at ships in the Straight of Hormuz that ships are NOT going to be going through the Straight of Hormuz very much or at all.
And oil Tanker owners are not going to want their ships blown up either.
So, Trump saying the STraight of Hormuz is a U.S. Territory or Iran saying the STraight of HOrmuz is an Iranian Territory is bullshit both ways.
This will never end the way things are going and so likely oil prices are going to stay high.
Even Russia's refining capacity has been basically destroyed by Ukrainian drones too to the point where the only oil Russia can sell now to other nations is completely unrefined out right out of the ground.
Everything has changed worldwide now and oil likely will remain high in price for months or years no matter what Trump tells you. It's all BS and it's important that you know it at this point for your own economic survival long term.
So, the result is a whole lot of damage to Moscow especially the Wildberries hub which is similar to an Amazon Hub in the U.S. for Russia.
So, Ukraine is has destabilized oil products in Russia already by taking away 40% of Russia's refining capacity through drones already.
Now it is destabilizing Russia's version of Amazon so Imagine what would happen here in the U.S. if that happened. So, you get just how much at a core level Ukraine and Russia are now harming each other as nations. The people of both nations are going to feel this in very deep ways in trying to survive now.
Basically, what this means is that around 400 Ukrainian Drones hit their targets in all of this which is devastating news for Moscow at this point regarding their version of Amazon called Wildberries in Russia.
LONDON -- Russian
air defenses in the Moscow region shot down at least 201 Ukrainian
drones overnight and into Sunday morning, according to a statement from
the city's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, in what appeared to be Ukraine's
largest wave of drone attacks on the Russian capital of the war to date.
The
201 drones downed were among around 600 craft that were launched in the
direction of Moscow between Saturday evening and early Sunday morning,
Sobyanin said in a series of statements posted to Telegram.
Sobyanin
did not report any damage or casualties, though said that emergency
responders had been deployed to the site of fallen debris.
Moscow's
regional Gov. Andrey Vorobyov, though, reported in a post to Telegram
that one person was killed in the capital's Ramensky district when a
drone fell on a residential property.
A
firefighting helicopter prepares to drop a load of water during a fire
at Russian e-commerce firm Wildberries' logistics complex near the town
of Podolsk, outside Moscow, on Aug. 16, 2026.
Russia's
Defense Ministry said its forces downed at least 822 Ukrainian drones
overnight. The craft were shot down over 16 Russian regions, occupied
Crimea, the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea.
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Local
officials reported that five people were killed by a drone attack in
the Rostov region and that one person was killed in a drone attack on a
bus in the Belgorod region.
Ukrainian
forces also again targeted facilities belonging to Russia's e-commerce
giant Wildberries. The company reported a fire at a warehouse in the
city of Podolsk to the south of Moscow.
The
Ukrainian missile and drone production company Fire Point said in a
post to Telegram that its weapons were used to attack "a Wildberries
logistics hub" in Kolyadino in Podolsk.
Wildberries
warehouses burn following a Ukrainian drone attack, according to the
regional governor, in Koledino, Podolsk, in the Moscow region of Russia,
on Aug. 16, 2026, in this still image obtained from social media video.
Russia's
federal air transport agency, Rosaviatsiya, reported temporary flight
restrictions at airports in Kaluga, Tambov, Gelendzhik and Sochi, as
well as at three of Moscow's four international airports -- Vnukovo,
Domedodovo and Zhukovsky.
Russia
continued its own long-range strike campaign on Ukraine overnight.
Ukraine's air force said Russian forces launched several missiles and
106 drones into the country in its latest barrage, of which three
missiles and 85 drones were shot down or otherwise suppressed.
Impacts of Russian munitions were reported across 13 locations, the air force said.
Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a post to Telegram that at least
six people were injured in the capital Kyiv and across the surrounding
region.
Two
people were killed by Russian strikes in Zelenskyy's home city of Kryvyi
Rih, the president wrote, as was one person in the northeastern city of
Sumy. Two more people were killed in the southern Zaporizhzhia region,
local officials there said.
This
handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian State Emergency
Service on Aug. 16, 2026 shows rescuers working at the site of a Russian
strike in Kyiv.
"When
North Korean ballistic missiles destroy infrastructure and take lives
here, in Europe, we cannot allow European interceptors to simply remain
in storage," Zelenskyy wrote, in another appeal to foreign partners to
bolster Kyiv's thinning stocks of air defense munitions.
"Protecting
lives is essential. Russia must be stopped. New aid packages represent,
quite literally, lives saved and infrastructure protected every day,"
Zelenskyy said.
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Amid
Russia's latest barrage, at least one drone was reported as having
crossed into NATO airspace in Romania, from the direction of Moldova.
The Defense Ministry in Bucharest said in a statement that the craft was
tracked and shot down by a Spanish F-18 fighter jet.
They likely only lost one person in a Traffic Accident so far. So, mostly the Big Island has roads closed from Flooding and stuff like that so far. However, the rain is helpful in that most of the Hawaiian Islands have been in drought. The biggest problem is trying to hold onto the water for use of islanders I think at present. However, it is true many roads possibly have been undermined by the heavy rain too.
In fact, it might be places like Maui and Oahu and Kauai that might be actually hit harder than the Big Island of Hawaii as the population on the Big Island is more spread out but on Maui and Oahu and Kauai the population concentrations are greater in several places. So, if the population centers on the other Islands are hit with water beyond a certain point you might have flash flooding there too.
The point is that there is a lot of land on the Big Island for people to spread out and less land on all the other islands with larger population centers like Honolulu and the Kihei to Napili and Kapalua area of Maui with larger concentrations of people.
However, people also can be wise too about where they live and have watched previous storms in the past and so they have adapted pretty much to what can happen on the Hawaiian Islands too.
