Agreed, although they are far more Germanic than ever before and that "erased people" issue is a hard one to swallow.
The point is that each of these new states now all owe Germany. And given that Nazi Germany and Islam were allied in WWII, and now Germany and Islam are both rising and flexing their muscles at the same time and in the same place with the same line up of players once again, with no one noticing the historical connection between them, it worries me.
It especially concerns me that, at a time when we are battling Islamic terrorism, we support the establishment of two Islamic countries in the Balkans with known Islamic terrorist connections? It makes no sense!
I agree, but those things were allowed to happen when America was still in a September 10 mentality.
The threat of Islamic radicalism was not taken as seriously in those days as it should have been - most policymakers assumed it was just another form of nationalist rhetoric.
And yes, the "erased people" stuff is victimological garbage.