While nomads and tribespeople occasionally defeat organized governments and religions, the trend over the past 13,000 years has been for the nomads and tribespeople to lose.
People who grew up in spaces with clear corners were fooled most of the time, whereas bushmen from southern Africa, tribespeople from Angola, and Kalahari hunter-gatherers almost always perceived the lines as identical.
More practical was Operation Franz, a scheme through which the Nazis aimed to provide support to anti-British and anti-Soviet elements within Iran, notably the Qashqai tribespeople of the south of the country.