De-googling is great, and I found Kagi be a superior product. However their politics aren’t good either. Being neutral and apolitical somehow makes giving money (albeit a small percentage) to Yandex. And that company is a supporter of the Russian state.
Every major search engine is financially entangled with one or more national governments, it's impossible for an entity that size not to be. I'd say yes, the only neutral and apolitical stance is to support each upstream search provider in proportion to some objective measure like use numbers, whichever countries you deem those upstream search providers to be involved with.
I try to minimize my use of general purpose search engines as much as possible, by instead using the search functionality of websites whenever I know that website is where I'm looking for something anyway. If I want a Wikipedia page, I search for it on Wikipedia. If I want the page for a function in the standard library of whatever, I search for it through that site. Etc. In this way I've reduced my reliance on general purpose search engines by 90% or more.
This can be made much more ergonomic by setting up "search keywords" in Firefox. Just right-click the search field on a site to add a keyword that will be used when searching through that site.
The Russian state is way less bad that the American state overall, but note that they're both bad overall, and this is not true on the specific issue of Ukraine.
