Here are a few excerpts from an an extremely important interview with one of the top individuals in the world of national security, Jim Rickards.
Things are moving very quickly. General Martin Dempsey, who is the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has arrived in Israel and Israel is integrating itself with the U.S. European Command or EUCOM. So, at this point, the integration of the Israeli and the US operational capability, including NATO based in Europe, is very far along.
There are an enormous number of US troops in Israel. I don’t know if people realize that, but they are operating the THAAD system (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense). They oversee weapons that will shoot down incoming Iranian missiles.
There are joint exercises going on between the US and Israel. At the same time Iran is conducting war games. There are a lot of moving pieces on the chessboard at this point.
This is not just war gaming or thinking about what might happen, the pieces have actually begun to move on the chessboard.
If Iran gets nuclear weapons, Iran has said they will burn Israel to the ground. So, this is not just a strategic rebalancing, this is life or death for the Israelis.....
“All of the information I have is that the US is going to do it (attack Iran). So the tension between Israel and the United States is being resolved in favor of letting the US actually launch the attack.
Part of the reason for this is the retaliation vector. If the US attacks and Israel keeps out, then Iran has no justification for attacking Israel.
This war will be fought with air power, sea power, cyberwarfare, financial warfare, sabotage, special operation, assassination, things like that.
This is already going on.
As an example, yesterday a prominent Iranian nuclear scientist had an unlucky encounter with a magnet bomb.
So this war is already being fought. President Obama sanctioned the (Iran) central bank about a week ago. The Iranian currency, the rial, dropped 30%
in a single day. Hyperinflation has broken out in Iran. This is financial warfare.
My point to the listeners is this is not theoretical, this is not a war game, not an exercise, it’s happening now and the clock is ticking...
Source: https://goldsilver.com/new/jim-rickards-war-with-iran-has-begun-gold-to-break-2-000/