“A month ago, most Americans could not have found Crimea on a map. But its lightning-quick takeover by Moscow has abruptly redrawn the geopolitical atlas and may have decisively ended a 25-year period of often tumultuous yet also constructive relations between the United States and Russia.” In the NYT, Peter Baker ponders a future that might not be a full-on Cold War, but it could definitely get chilly.

+ Ukraine’s military is pulling out of Crimea.