The lack of ability to raise taxes to operate the national government, and the requirement for a unaimous vote of the state's to pass legislation. The federal government had no way to force the states to obtain the funds it needed to operate. State only sent funds it needed to operate.
I believe the answer you are looking for is A.
There missiles ready and pointed at each country by the enemy state.
The movement of USSR missiles to Cuba caused an immediate reaction by the US. Negotiations worked back and forth to prevent a missile attack by either side. The US had missiles in Turkey which the USSR believed to be a threat to their safety.
I'm pretty sure it's the Second.
First of all, it should be mentioned that Rudyard Kipling was a renowned author of short stories and books, among them the famous The Jungle Book, which tells the story of Mogli. In this sense, it is also worth mentioning the advent of Neocolonialism, which used the notion of race domination to justify the capitalist expansion it wished to undertake. Kipling was one of the minds harnessed by Neocolonialism, and his works, which preached the inferiority of non-white people and, consequently, white supremacy, can be considered racist because they aimed at the reduction of individuals based on racial criteria, at the same time time that can be considered ethnocentric because they place the Caucasian European man as the center of the world, superior to the others, and who, therefore, would have legitimacy to govern everything and everyone.