I’ve got great news for you! Even with little money (from a Western point of view) you can still have a huge impact on people in poorer countries

Fake it till you make it. I realized everyone is very busy thinking of how they come across, so likely what I worry about isn’t that important anyways.

Interesting, thank you for sharing

How would you store the heat/convert to electricity?

I’d look into something like https://whistleblower.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/whistleblower.house.gov/files/whistleblower_survival_tips.pdf

Also consider how your country protects (or rather prosecutes) whistleblowers and whether this question you asked here + additional online interaction history could lead then to identify you

They’re geographically shielded from Russia by Poland, Germany, France, and probably have less reliance on Russian energy. So having an alliance with USA is less important to them geopolitically. My guess at least