Whiplash: How Trump's threat to strike Nigeria further reshuffles Pentagon priorities

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When U.S. President Donald Trump made a surprise threat this weekend on social media to carry out strikes in Nigeria, his defense secretary answered quickly: "Yes, sir." But several Pentagon officials described feeling whiplash from Trump's orders as they try to understand the priorities of an administration that in the past several months has elevated once backburner issues like nuclear testing, democracy in Venezuela and cocaine trafficking. Pentagon officials broadly expected Trump's

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