Political Intelligence Briefing Quick Hits: March 2, 2021

This week includes:

-Aftermath of province-ordered killing of a journalist in Saudi Arabia
-COVID-19 relief legislation in the United States as well as President Biden’s ordering of military airstrikes against Iranian military installations across the Middle East and authorization of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine.
-Aftermath of Italian diplomat’s murder in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
-Continued conflict and civilian casualties on Myanmar
-Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s conviction and sentence of corruption charges.

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