Neanderthals were never global. Their range was limited to Europe, which right there is a sign of their cognitive limitations by comparison to modern humans.
Your analyisis would go a long way towards explaining how the current German government allowed so much "trading with the Enemy" (ie.Saddam Hussien) while pretending to be our ally.
They are'nt underhanded.
They are Neanerthals!
But , not to worry.
They've been overrun by a superior race...millions of Arab immigrants who despise them on sight.
Hmmm?
An evolutionary clue?
Neanderthals have been found all over Eurasia. They were definately not limited to Europe.
Actually, neanderthals ranged from Europe into the Middle East. There are several sites in Israel, for example, that had at one time archaic homo sapiens populations (about 200,000 years ago) that were REPLACED with homo neanderthalis unitl about 100,000 years ago when modern homo sapiens came out from Africa. Anyway, there were considerable homo neanderthalis remains found in Turkey, Iraq, and Israel.