Google Maps shows a globe in the browser version these days, if you zoom out sufficiently
I’m reasonably certain they didn’t, and wouldn’t even know how, were you to suggest this to them.
Yeah, I was wrong. That line does get to Kamachatka from the southeast. (The perspective really threw me off.)
But if that penisula and just a bit of the Russian coast were gone, the route would “curve” west and then southwest into China or Mongolia.
This map is one of my all-time favorite “perspective busters.” The OP might find it helpful in visualizing the problem:
I LOVE this map!
Now the route discussed before does no longer look like a great circle:
I may not have drawn it perfectly, but at least four points are accurate according to the video: start at Pakistan, sail between Madagascar and Africa, cross the Magellan Strait, arrive in Kamchatka. It seems to me the route would land in California and not in Kamchatka.