50,000 US Troops in Middle East; Trump Mulls Seizing Uranium
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
The United States now has more than 50,000 troops stationed in the Middle East. The number has been bolstered by recent deployments, and is raising discussions over whether ground operations could be made against the Iranian regime. This comes alongside news that President Donald Trump is weighing the option of seizing oil resources and refined uranium from Iran.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has placed a bounty on fraud. The federal government is now offering huge rewards for reports that lead to takedowns of fraudsters.
We’ll discuss these topics and others in this episode of Crossroads.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Crossroads. The United States has now more than 50,000 troops stationed in the Middle East. |
| 0:07.1 | Some new deployments, and this has been bolstered recently. It's raising discussions over whether |
| 0:13.0 | ground operations could be possible against the Iranian regime. Will we go to ground war with Iran? |
| 0:18.9 | That is the question. I'll answer this. Also in that point, |
| 0:21.7 | there are unconfirmed reports that President Donald Trump is weighing military action to seize |
| 0:27.0 | Iran's uranium, also some oil sources, and maybe even an island. And also on that point, |
| 0:34.1 | we could also see military action against the Cuban communist regime. |
| 0:37.6 | Well, there's a lot happening. |
| 0:39.1 | I'll be deep diving into all this. |
| 0:41.1 | So make sure to hit the like button. |
| 0:42.8 | Leave a comment. |
| 0:43.7 | Let's get started. |
| 0:45.3 | All right, first of all, the United States now has more than 50,000 troops stationed in the Middle East. |
| 0:50.0 | And this has been bolstered by recent deployments. |
| 0:53.1 | And there's a lot of debate right now, |
| 0:55.0 | will we see ground operations against the Iranian regime? I want to show you the full context of this, |
| 1:02.0 | what other media are saying, and I'll give my take on it. Let me show you this first, okay? |
| 1:06.3 | Newsmax says this. More than 50,000 troops are stationed in the Middle East as the war in Iran |
| 1:12.4 | heads into its second month. They say the number is 10,000 more troops than usual, and comes after |
| 1:18.3 | 2,500 Marines and 2,500 sailors arrived in the region, the New York Times reported. |
| 1:25.4 | And notes the Marines came from the 31st Marine Expeditionary. |
| 1:28.5 | You know, I see even in the chat. |
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