Another goal was to create more military bases and involve more soldiers in it. Also, they tried to blackmail other Middle Eastern countries by reducing oil and energy supplies. Realism was definitely helping when people tried to keep policy for a long time. Before every realist leader send his people to war they always think about the consequences and calculate what would happen and what would be the advantages or disadvantages trying to go back to the past and to get some experience. Realist leaders' main goal is to keep his nation safe, and probably that is the main goal of starting a war - the national security. “Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on Terror.” (George W.