Ka cika wannan jumla: Tare da sabon juyin juya halin Counter-Reformation, wannan ya yi barazanar jihohin Furotesta a cikin Daular. Hakanan ya jawo hankalin masu iko na waje waɗanda ke riƙe da yankuna na Imperial; Nassau-Dillenburg mallakar gado ne na Yariman Dutch na Orange, yayin da Christian IV na Denmark shi ma Duke na Holstein ne. Tare da Faransa da ke fuskantar 'yan tawayen Huguenot da Spain ta ba da kuɗi daga 1622 zuwa 1630, da kuma
Yaƙe-yaƙe na wakili a Italiya daga 1628 zuwa 1631, wannan ya ba da dama don raunana Habsburgs, amma kauce wa rikici kai tsaye.