Fast Takes: Putins reckoning is now, a tombstone for Obamaism and more

“President Vladimir Putin’s Russian Federation is taking on water.Like the Titanic, it has struck an immovable object — in this case Ukraine — and it is sinking fast,” cheer Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth at The Hill.Volodymyr Zelensky’s war strategy is clear: “When Russia grows tired, change comes.” Putin ally Alexander Lukashenko has “ruled out sending troops to fight in Ukraine,” admitting that Belarus, too, is “very vulnerable militarily” to Ukrainian attacks.

Putin’s “battlefield failures” have led to “nuclear saber-rattling” and attacks against “civilian targets,” including “bomb shelters, churches and cultural centers — all war crimes or even forms of genocide.” Vlad “can no longer defend his own skies, and he will not come to the defense of his allies”; he’s become “the grandfather hiding in his bunker.”“Anti-masking laws,” known federally as the “Ku Klux Klan Act,” criminalize gangs of people hiding their faces to “prevent or hinder the free enjoyment of any federal right,” notes Akiva Shapiro at City Journal.It’s time to enforce these laws to prosecute the “masked hooligans” who have threatened synagogues and harassed people dining in Jewish-owned restaurants.Even when “caught on video,” few perps have had “to face the consequences of their actions — because their faces were covered.” Anti-masking laws “helped dismantle the KKK” and can work now against “pro-Hamas protesters” who “hide behind masks to harass people they hate” and “interfere with the free exercise of fundamental constitutional rights.”  Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email.

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