The USSR's actions against The US were simply reflexes, not direct contributions to the causation of the Cold War

To take the perspective of the traditionalist historian in placing the blame of origin of the Cold War solely upon the Soviet Union is orthodox and somewhat reasonable if only one frame, out of the context of long decades of conflict, is examined. But before critics quickly sway to the extreme of siding with US Naval War historian Eugene V Rostow in claiming, "The cold war was caused by the USSR's 'imperial appetite'", it is …

…the growth of tension between the two nations in the war's infancy. What ally would accuse another of paranoia because of one single telegram? What country for freedom and democracy would blindly find the concept of security incomprehensible? The USSR's actions against such ill-purposed policies are only reflexes, not direct contributions to the causation. And so, the Soviet Union's allotment of blame for the four years in question is not primary or great in amount.