ToBeOrNotToBe
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I only associate the Z2103 tribes with the first stages of the expansion of proto-Indo-European. L51 is Bell Beaker and broadly Vasconic; their L23 ancestors went through Anatolia and into Europe while Z2103 headed through the Caucasus and into the Steppe, where they met the pre-Proto-Indo-European R1a-M417 and adopted their language, later taking it into Europe and Indo-Europeanizing their L51 cousins. The oldest R1b-Z2103 is from 5500 BC, a long enough time frame to allow this. This connects the Basque language to the Caucasian tongues and also allows a great deal of Basque survival, as their main clade, R1b-DF27, is descended from L51.
Not that my opinion is important, but I agree. As a reminder for the doubters, check here to see the distribution of IE languages from around 2000 BC - does the distribution of Western IE remind you of any particular culture? Celtic languages developed in the Hallstatt culture, meaning they are an extremely late import into the British Isles. And the only known Indo-European language native to Iberia is that of the Lusitanian folk, which was also an extremely late import. It just doesn't add up that this was spread around Europe by the Beaker folk - not least in Britain, where there was basically a wipeout of the local population. A Corded Ware origin seems likely.