Funny how sometimes something can set off a world conflagration...
From Rand's linked source:
At a dramatic moment in European history, it ["England" -CRC] declared war against the Reich, unleashing a world conflagration that not only went out of control but threatens to leave England itself in ruins. A tiny extension of Germany into purely German territories to the East was sufficient ground to see a threat to the European balance of power....and sometimes not: Replace "Germany" with "Russia" in that last sentence, and that's exactly what's been going on for at least a decade now. But none of our intrepid world leaders dare even whisper that perhaps it's time some day soon to reign that bastard Putler in "with extreme prejudice".