Newly appointed MI-6 Director Blaise Metreweli gave her first major speech on Dec. 15 at MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall, central London. In it, she fully embraced the worst kind of fear-mongering rhetoric, declaring that all citizens must now become involved in the war against Russia because “the front line is everywhere.”
Metreweli, who became MI6 chief in June, began: “We are being contested from sea to space, from the battlefield to the boardroom. And even our brains, as disinformation manipulates our understanding of each other and ourselves. Across the globe, we are now confronting not one single danger, but an interlocking web of security challenges—military, technological, social, ethical even—each shaping the other in complex ways. We are now operating in a space between peace and war.”
She went on to make the usual claims against Russia, that “We all continue to face the menace of an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia, seeking to subjugate Ukraine and harass NATO.” In addition, she said, “Russia is testing us in the grey zone with tactics that are just below the threshold of war,” including: Cyberattacks on critical infrastructure, Drones buzzing airports and bases, Aggressive activity in our seas, State-sponsored arson and sabotage, Propaganda and influence operations that crack open and exploit fractures within societies.
