Anyone else feel like they need to document/keep a record?

I will be documenting it. I screen shot CNN last night when it announced Russia was invading. BBC would be a good one to have as well. Right now, I am just making notes and grabbing some photos off the web and adding them to a Digital file folder for later. Not sure what I will do it all. Oh, and I am making a list of prices of things because I feel like we will see much higher prices in the near future (gas, groceries).

War is God's way of teaching American's geography.
History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools. Ambrose Bierce

I’ve been capturing screenshots and pictures on my phone.
Not sure what I’ll do with them, but I will have a timeline of events and speeches with time stamps.
Because knowing me, anything I capture now isn’t getting scrapped for a while.

Does anyone remember the website that has "today's" newspaper headlines from all over the world?

I save my grocery receipt from time to time, based on keeping in my PL everything which I wish my Grandma had saved all those years ago. This morning, I filled my car and kept that receipt too. I noticed that it was rather more than it was just a week or so ago.

I too screenshot the front page of a newspaper on my phone when something momentous happens - election result, extreme weather, 22.2.2022 and so on. I really didn't want to have a "Russia v Ukraine" card in my PL but sadly, it will be there.

I usually don’t document too many current events but I feel compelled to document this war. I think because In the last decade I’ve done a great deal of reading on how Hitler stole the art, antiquities, & archival materials from the countries he invaded. That in turn led me to start reading about the arts in Germany between WWI- WWII. You can’t begin to address that topic without dealing with the politics of the time. I too see similarities between our time & then. It’s disturbing, in a lose sleep over it kind of way. Especially when Putin starts invading & conquering countries and the West stands by and does nothing. We know the consequences of Putin’s actions and our inaction. We fought 2 big wars, and still we stand aside and let Putin continue. I don’t know how I’ll document this yet. All I do know is that the pictures will not play a big role, if any. I also think we will learn about the arm twisting that went on behind closed doors to make things happen (specifically Germany & the Russian gas line). At this point I’m feeling like I’d need to do a lot more research and then write a book. Not exactly what I plan on doing. I just haven’t been able to let go of my interest in the cultural reactions to events like these. I’m also interested to see the differences in how Ukrainian refuges are treated vs. Afghani refugees. Especially in countries like Poland, Greece, Germany, and France.