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“The Coalition dropping a new wave of leaflets on Raqqa warning the local population about heavy airstrikes would indicate that the under Trump, the operation to seize Raqqa is going to be very aggressive, very quickly. It will likely have a higher tolerance for civilian casualties, particularly if ISIS is putting up a fierce defense in residential areas of the city,” he told ARA News.
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US-backed SDF forces to storm ISIS capital Raqqa soon - ARA News
So flattening East Aleppo to beat al-Qaeda = bad, Oscar-winningly bad. Flattening Raqqa to beat ISIS will be good, like Mosul.