Jonathan Bratten
speaker
318 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
Jonathan Bratten’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah.
And he does it.
And he does it because, one, that's exactly what Roosevelt and Churchill want to hear.
They need someone who's going to be the anti-Vichy voice to be this figurehead.
And he's very happy to be the figurehead.
Probably a little bit too happy.
But as loudmouthed, as braggadocious, as...
self-seeking as he is, you could almost forgive so much of it because he goes, well, I'm doing this for France.
And he's not wrong.
France needed that.
They needed that voice.
They needed that ability to have someone to be fighting for French interests
As a member of the alliance, not as someone from the outside, but as someone from within.
And so, of course, he's going to be a thorn in the side of everybody.
Like I mentioned, Strasbourg, you know, allies capture Strasbourg, Germans counterattack, Americans say, hey, we've got a free French, we've got to give this back.
And the free French say, absolutely not.
Now you've got just sort of...
a standoff amongst allies.
But where de Gaulle sees this as we've lost our nation, our sense of self, our pride as who we are as French, there are some things we can't do.
As a Francophile, I find him fascinating.
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