Extrapolating from there to Kosovo and oppressed countries in Eastern Europe and the implication that somehow I'm in favour of racist stereotyping of marginalised European ethnic groups...

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I hope that's not what it sounded like I was implying because I certainly didn't mean that. It simply wasn't clear to me in the passage you quoted above that you were only talking about England and France and their near neighbors. That's all.

I think we've had misreadings on both sides here, so probably better to leave it here?