By this he means a Gank where his side 3x-3.5x the Dutch-French Side had when the war was at its strongest.
Honestly Ming and Malaya getting involved is a bit ridiculous/strange. Not to mention the only person who really gained anything out of it was Denmark [Wiz], and Poland[Catalack] (Brandenburg and Rupin under his control, and Potsdam, Anhalt, Altmark, and Leipzig were released from Austria.) So Portugal, Byzantium, Ming, Malaya all put their troops through a meat grinder all for no gain to themselves.
So instead of talking about the French-Danish Menace, lets Discuss the Dansk-Swede-Byzies-Han-Porto "Death Star" Bloc.
The Western Powers won some important early successes but in the end the bad guys had these immense manpower reserves that they could just keep throwing at us. And when your enemy has bases all the way back in China and Siberia, that's pretty good strategic depth and it's hard to knock them out. Especially since there were no neutral powers to potentially threaten them, everyone was in on it.
But although the motives in many cases seemed very obscure, one can only take it as a compliment when the ENTIRE WORLD conspires for one's destruction.