One of the differences between a "democratic-led" coalition and an authoritarian-led one is that the first is much better at "surgical strikes" At least 544 civilians killed in Russian-led assault in Syria
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51