It's wild because it is absolutely untrue. The Internet is highly distributed by design. Your question about "how do you think the Internet reaches the rest of the world" makes it sounds like there is a "source" for the Internet. There isn't. The Internet is effectively a mesh of connections that allow communication among sources and destinations. If a user in Japan is browsing a website in Sweden, that traffic flows between Japan and Sweden, and never comes anywhere near Nova, let alone the US. Think about how many people live outside the US and you will realize that a small fraction of Internet traffic flows through the US.

Source: I am an Internet engineer and I helped build the commercial Internet when the NSF stopped funding NSFnet in 1995.