Germany seeks to levy 10% tax on online platforms like Google

This is fair to balance digital services trade deficit.

It is still an absolutely moronic idea, but they don't run their software on the Google Cloud, they run their own Datacenter and Google Cloud provides the Software Platform. It is still air gapped and theoretically independent

That's one way to channel German tax money into US big tech.

On the other hand, Bundeswehr (German Military) runs their infrastructure on Google Cloud.

Good. Americas services need to be tariffed.

To be fair that's the way to get back a lot more than Trumps tarrifs. The Us exports way more media than they import.

Its also the approach I'd take if I was in charge but hitting every American company.