alt Hacker NewsIt does make Clausewitz's saying about war being "politics by other means" back in context when you put it that way.
But really politics is just about "one person causes another to act". This can be through persuasion. It doesn't have to be force (or fraud for that matter).
Persuasion is merely the implication of force. All actions can be explained through the language of force from the tenuous to the direct.