President Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, paired with a prisoner swap, according to Bloomberg Politics on May 8, 2026. The guns pause. Men come home. That matters.
But a ceasefire is a comma, not a period. Every armistice in living memory — Korea, the Minsk agreements, every Gulf pause — has been tested the moment the ink dried. The republic must watch what follows the handshake, not just the handshake itself.
Eisenhower knew the weight of these moments better than most. Peace is not the absence of war — it is the disciplined work of statecraft after the shooting stops. Congress holds the treaty power under Article I. Whatever framework emerges from this weekend deserves full public accounting before it hardens into obligation.