Not at all. That’s terror tactics when you cannot achieve your goal otherwise. It’s also completely counter productive in a country or region you plan or want t

Not at all. That’s terror tactics when you cannot achieve your goal otherwise. It’s also completely counter productive in a country or region you plan or want to annex. Fallujah, Raqqa, and even Mosul were organised operations, during which neighbourhoods were isolated, reduced, and then taken street after street more or less methodically. Nobody ever sat there just bombing indiscriminately. The closest example you could find is Aleppo. Taking Fallujah: ~2000 insurgents killed, ~1000 captured, ~800 dead civilians, ~10000 buildings destroyed out of ~50000. Even without taking the 90% destruction rate at face value, Mariupol is already much, much worse (at least 4 times the number of civilian casualties, double the number of dead Ukrainians soldiers, and more than half the buildings destroyed). And the numbers will likely grow more and more as mass graves are recovered.