What does it mean?
ultima ratio regum

Ultima ratio regum was the inevitable solution arrived at by the two nations—

a.) war had become the last resort.

b.) diplomacy, as difficult and glacially slow as it could sometimes be, was infinitely preferable to the alternative.

c.) each decided to live and let live, the only rational solution.

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