Why does the Internet Archive only work with a US IP address?

They are saying that Internet Archive is working for them on Proton VPN exit IPs. And that Internet Archive follows US law, while Archive.today follows russian law. They are quite different. IA crawls the entire web, AT crawls at user direction and has really good paywall bypasses. I am looking forward to new archive solutions it’s an insanely important service these guys provide to the internet, so it’s pretty scary it’s so centralized.