I won't say from the news because due to technology we're given the chance to observe everything, lately the war in Armenia-Azerbaijan for example. But from my own more personal experiences, this year back in February-March when the situation in Ukraine started getting more intense, I had a roommate who is half Russian half Ukrainian and she would tell me how it was all going and when the sanctions started taking place we were worried of her bank card not working and I remember going to the bank one day with her and when she got outside and told me they had blocked her account and started crying from the stress, that's when it hit me this was happening for real and had real consequences on innocent people.
Oh sorry I just saw you were talking about being a kid. I guess the 2004 Olympic Games and 2008 riots as I was living where they were happening. Also as a teenager the 2015 refugee crisis. It had a huge impact on my moral sense.
