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Sorry to rain on your parade Google is a "US" company - just because its sets up in Europe to get access to cheap labour and as a lobbying tool "look we employ x people in your country" - doesn't make any difference.

Eu companies do the same German pro union at home hire dodgy American union busters in the UK for example

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How many thousands of employees, including executive roles, does a company need before it is an international company?

Legally, absolutely. If the US declared war on all of Europe tomorrow, there's no meaningful question what Google would do.

... but practically and on the ground, the Google employee base is large and international enough that there may very well be employees with friends or relatives in US military hot-zones where the US has not successfully demonstrated sufficient care about civilian casualties. Their desire to only work for the company in relatively peaceful times is pretty understandable.

Nobody wants to wake up one morning and realize they're an IBM employee in 1940.

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