Did Munch have premonitions about the 20th century?

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/edvard-munch-beyond-the-scream-111810150/?all&no-ist

Munch was much more prolific than many of us realise.ii feel he was psychic;that he foresaw the horrors to come.
In particular,the situation in the Middle East now is a direct consequence of how Britain and France behave after W W 1 when they divided up the Ottoman empire.Most of the States there did not exist… and have never functioned very well.
I wonder why Arabs seem to have been despised when they had a marvelloulsculture and invented algebra for example…societies rise and fall as the British Empire has done