You can minimize the civil war by making it 2 way and going with, I forget his name but I think it begins with an F or something but only the AUS declare independence and it’s literally the exact same as the first civil war. If only Millennium Dawn had a redux submod. (I went in trying to set up favorable conditions for the AUS, only to find this mod still works). The AUS effectually formed after the formation of the American Soviet Republic. The situation only gets worse if MacArthur refuses to step down after the war and maintains military dictatorship, marking the end of American democracy.