I’m not sure it’s ‘wisdom’ per say. Your comment indicates you didn’t notice and you aren’t alone. But there are many people that picked up ‘something’ about this tyrant. Maybe it was due to history lessons or a spirtual ‘eye’.
For me, it was having read some history and so, when the posturing started, I had the older models to compare with and they all indicated that this was going to proceed poorly and end very badly.