The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it.
Since they created the internet, they have field advantage. It's almost impossible not to use a US based provider, it goes as deep as ipv4 distribution.
> The connections need to pass through the US just once in order to give the US a chance to attack it.
Less than once if the US were, purely hypothetically, to have a well-funded foreign sigint operation that might cooperate with domestic law enforcement on priority issues.
