With what foreign power might there be a conflict if the United States wanted Cuba?

Nationalism led to major conflicts following world war i, especially when:

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.

What did the introduction of silk into the mediterranean do for the abbasid empire