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Bipartisan Lawmakers warn of escalation after US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker

Washington, Dec 11 (UNI) Bipartisan lawmakers on Wednesday voiced strong concerns that the U.S. seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker could dangerously escalate tensions with Caracas, even as the Trump administration defended the move as part of its broader crackdown on sanctioned oil shipments.
Republican Senator Rand Paul warned that the operation risked triggering a broader conflict. “It sounds a lot like the beginning of a war,” Paul told NewsNation’s Hannah Brandt, adding that “it is not the job of the American government to go looking for monsters around the world, looking for adversaries and beginning wars.”
Democrats voiced similar alarms. Senator Chris Coons said he had not been briefed on the incident but was “gravely concerned that Trump is sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela.”

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