Hacking Geopolitics

The metatribes

With 7 billion people the world looks like a widely diverse place, with hundreds of different countries and thousands of competing tribes or cultures. We often hear it discussed the war between east and west, or capitalism and socialism, but what is the meat behind these divisions, what is the core of the moral divide.
I was looking into this about 4 years ago, in 2016 when my attention had been accidentally captured by ongoing wars in the world. The most obvious being the building tension created by suicide bombings in the west by ‘Islamic extremists’.
At first it just seemed like individually motivated groups performing random attacks, but as I dug further into the history some rather interesting patterns began to emerge.
One pattern seemed to be Germany’s reluctance to comment on any acts on terror, while at the same time accepting large groups of Syrian refugees, 2 million since the out break of war in 2011. These are staggering vast population movements, and from a secular point of view possibly of no consequence. But this partnership between Germany and mainly Turkey dates far back into the mists of time.
Germany and Turkey have been natural allies in the last century in the two brutal conflicts that marked that century. The two world wars were marked by essentially the land locked Germany, allying with the Ottoman Empire to take on the power of the British Empire.
But this was not the first time in history that the two countries allied for military benefit. Indeed, the beginning of this partnership could well date back two millennia to the Roman Empire…