Was Machiavelli psychic?

according to machiavelli, countries with ethnically diverse population that had been suppressed by the deposed ruler are fairly easy to defeat as often one of the subsets ethnic groups or more will align themselves witht the invadors, especially if the deposed leader was an oppressor. But according to machiavelli, occupying such a country will prove very difficult for the following reasons: a) because they literally are having their first taste of freedom in quite a while, some of the previously oppressed sub groups will find it very difficult to form a unity government and will feud with each other for power, as they are very wary of being dominated or oppressed again in the future. The main problem being that they have very little in common and a lot of distrust. b) He also predicted that enemies of the invading army who oppose its goals and objectives in the region will flock there to make the occupation impossible and throw a monkey wrench in the plans of the occupiers.