As the US try to force European countries to approve the missile defense system, French officials have said they are reluctant to do so as they are concerned it would be under the control of Washington rather than NATO. France has been leading the resistance against the missile defense shield (which was recently installed in Romania) that would be nominally a NATO program, but in reality it’s a US controlled operation against Europe, according to Katehon Germany and Italy appear be on the same page with France on rejecting US pressure. Sputnik News reports: France is reluctant to approve NATO taking control of the US-built European missile defense system, fearing that the system would be under the control of Washington and not the alliance, The Wall Street Journal reports citing French officials. “It is not just a technical question, there is a political aspect,” a French official told the newspaper on Wednesday. France wants to make sure that the system is not under American control, French officials stressed. One official pointed out that the NATO command and control system was not ready. “The C2 system is not sufficiently mature to allow NATO to control the situation,” the official said. NATO (North [...]