The internet was supposed to provide redundant routes between points. Increasingly due to financial reasons people have moved away from that model, since build

The internet was supposed to provide redundant routes between points. Increasingly due to financial reasons people have moved away from that model, since building redundancy typically costs money, and 99.9% of the time the lack of redundancy isn't causing issues. However, as the requirements for bandwidth, speed and responsiveness keeps increasing, there is no doubt that people will look into establishing more efficient and direct routes to help accomplish this, instead of just sending everything out in the wild, and across the US. Add to this the incredibly arrogant US "we own the world" powertrip and communications monitoring, and you have to wonder why people are still routing things trough the US when not strictly needed.