The reason this shit has dragged out for as long as it has is whitehats trying to make sure that a civil war doesn't happen, they won't try to use the one thing most likely to spark it to their 'advantage'...

Everything we have seen so far has been slow, meticulous and by the numbers, DS making moves toward civil war is very predictable and given what we have seen so far, whitehats will have gamed out and accounted for this and quite a few other scenarios...