Regarding the USA point, from the article, there are many indications that the site was founded by someone from Russia:

But in October 2025, the FBI sent a subpoena to domain registrar Tucows seeking “subscriber information on [the] customer behind archive.today” in connection with “a federal criminal investigation being conducted by the FBI.” We wrote about the subpoena, and our story included a link to Patokallio’s 2023 blog post in a sentence that said, “There are several indications that the [Archive.today] founder is from Russia.”

This is the link to the 2023 blog post: gyrovague.com/…/archive-today-on-the-trail-of-the…