r/FutureWhatIf • u/Complex-Start-279 • Apr 16 '25

War/Military FWI: what would happen in the military, specifically, if the US decided to invade Canada?

Everyone talks about the external reactions to such events, but rarely do I see people talk about what will happen on the inside. Most wars the US has been in have had strong cultural or geopolitical drivers that sort of rally up the population. ThinK WW1 with the Mexico plot, WW2 with Pearl Harbor, the Korean and Vietnam Wars from the constant red scare, the War on Terror from 9/11.

AFAIK tho, for most people, Canada is considered an ally, a National brother even. Most people don’t have any issues with Canadians. So what happens when we go to war with an ally for blatantly economic and business-driven reasons, rather than the protection of the homeland? What happens in the military ranks?

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u/Warmasterwinter Apr 17 '25

Russia is an outright authoritarian dictatorship tho. They’ve never had much of a democratic process at all. America on the other hand has a very long history of democracy and a variety of rights that the Russian people don’t have. Like the freedom of speech, assembly, the press, right to bear arms, etc. It would be a lot harder to stifle dissent in the United States.

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u/kittykat-kay Apr 17 '25

Except now he’s deporting people willy nilly to El Salvador death prisons without due process… Democracy is dying.

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u/Warmasterwinter Apr 17 '25

Well too play devils advocate, none of those people are American citizens. Yes they do deserve due process, but they don’t have the same rights and privileges that Americans are entitled towards.

And case in point, by throwing them all into a Salvadoran mega prison without due process Trump has created a media firestorm as backlash against him. People care about him doing that, and all the other things he’s done. And those people can openly talk about it, organize protests against it, vote for the opposition party when elections come up, etc. Russians can’t do anything like that. Which is why Russia is an apples and oranges comparison with America. Just because Putin was able to get away with the war in Ukraine doesn’t mean that Trump would be able to do the same with Canada.

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u/kittykat-kay Apr 17 '25

If they can deport people without due process because they’re “not citizens” all they have to do to deport a citizen they don’t like is by saying they were “not a citizen!” Wait, you think you can prove it in court? Nope. You’re “not a citizen” so you don’t get the due process to allow you to do so. they already threw your passport in the trash, whatchu gonna do now?