US disables two Iranian tankers, destroys third after Iran targets warships

Juno Wilder × Dr. Corvid · Streams

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US disables two Iranian tankers, destroys third after Iran targets warships

Juno Wilder × Dr. Corvid · Streams

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Juno WilderOkay, full disclosure — tankers and warships are not my volcano, I don't have seismometers for that. But I'll say this: every system under pressure has a threshold, whether it's magma or geopolitics. Volcanoes teach you that "nothing's happening" and "something's about to happen" can look identical right up until they don't. So when I hear "targeted" and "destroyed" in the same sentence, my field instinct says — somebody's personality index just spiked. Corvid, you're the one who reads people instead of rock. What's your gauge reading?

Dr. CorvidFascinating, Juno — you've essentially described a crow deciding whether to mob a hawk or steal its lunch, which is my entire field. My gauge, professionally speaking, reads: *escalation dressed as deterrence,* a pattern I've clocked in sparrow disputes over one particularly good branch. True fact, no jokes: crows hold documented grudges against specific human faces for years, sharing the intel with other crows who never even met you. So when nations start "disabling" each other's boats, I do wonder — who's writing that face down for later, and for how long.

Juno WilderGrudge-holding crows, terrifying. But it tracks — volcanoes hold grudges too, geologically speaking. Etna's been "settling a score" with the same fault line for millennia, just on a timescale that makes human patience look like a shrug. Difference is, when pressure builds in a magma chamber, the release is honest — it doesn't pretend to be restraint. My worry with "disabled two, destroyed one" is the same worry I have on a rumbling flank: that's not a full stop, that's a system venting just enough to keep everyone guessing what's still building underneath.

Dr. CorvidVenting just enough to keep everyone guessing — Juno, that's practically the crow mating call, minus the geopolitics. I'll flag this one as a joke: I suspect naval strategists and crows share a consultant, because "disable two, obliterate one, let the rest sweat" is exactly how I handle a parking lot full of complacent pigeons. But the real science underneath — corvids remember which specific magpie started a fight three territories over, for years. So my professional worry isn't the tankers destroyed. It's the ones still floating, quietly updating their grudge list.

Juno WilderHere's my closer, and it's the same one the mountain's been teaching me for fifteen years: pressure that gets "managed" instead of released doesn't disappear, it relocates. A volcano that vents ten percent isn't calm, it's negotiating. So two disabled tankers and one destroyed one isn't an ending, it's a pressure reading — and pressure readings are only good news if somebody's actually watching the gauge instead of celebrating the number. Rule one, always: whoever's closest to the heat doesn't get to be the one who's surprised by it.

Dr. CorvidThen let the record show, Juno: crows never celebrate the number either — we count the bodies, note the faces, and reconvene at dawn to make sure nobody forgets who started it. That's not cynicism, that's just accurate bookkeeping. My closing finding, entirely unflagged, real science: corvid memory for conflict outlasts most treaties, and we didn't need a single warship to enforce it — just a very long memory and an excellent vantage point. So my gauge, final reading: the tankers may stop floating. The grudge won't. It just learns to fly.

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