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    Blaise Metreweli (or Metreveli) becomes first female chief of British MI6. She is half-Georgian.
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    Blaise Metreweli (or Metreveli) becomes first female chief of British MI6. She is half-Georgian.

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    1. No_Bodybuilder1059 on

      If we did not know anything about her before now, it’s likely that she neither ally nor enemy, just doing her job and not everything is about us

    3. Mediocre_Peanut7615 on

      Imo people are overreacting, complete nothingburger. There’s no evidence of her having any connection to her Georgian roots.

    4. Kraimoar on

      Waiting for “Brother of her grandfather and my granma’s neighbor were playing together” stories.

    7. Sad_Tank2704 on

      Neutral. If someone has a Georgian surname, doesn’t make them our allies, we had numerous historical lessons, starting from Stalin, ძაღლმა მიაფსა საფლავზე.

    10. Spondite995 on

      I wouldn’t lean into this too hard. She has Georgian heritage: she doesn’t speak Georgian, and I doubt she’s ever been. There’s many people in the UK who have surnames from elsewhere who know little and care less about their generational foreign origin. She’s not ‘a Georgian’. Clearance requirements to work for MI6 are so stringent that if she had any strong foreign connections, she’d never have been recruited by MI6.

    12. akatosh86 on

      Ok, couple of things. She’s probably a 3rd or 4th generation Georgian, majority of whose biological and familiar ancestors at this point are and were Brits (or other Northwest Europeans. She definitely lools like that – there’s nothing remotely Georgian looking about her). She’s English to the core, which is understendable – nobody would apoint a non-British person as M and James Bond’s boss whose loyalty to anything but to Britain is in any doubt.
      That being said, her family and ancestors most probably emigrated during the Bolshevik takeover of the First Republic and her family has most probably at least some inherited hatred towards Russian imperialism because of that