<Li> The Soviets perceived themselves to be in a state of perpetual war with capitalism; </Li> <Li> The Soviets would use controllable Marxists in the capitalist world as allies; </Li> <Li> Soviet aggression was not aligned with the views of the Russian people or with economic reality, but with historic Russian xenophobia and paranoia; </Li> <Li> The Soviet government's structure prevented objective or accurate pictures of internal and external reality . </Li>

Why did the usa develop a policy of containment after 1945