Countries don't need wars to shoot people. You make laws and issue executive orders, and when they are violated, you send people to hit the violators with stick

Countries don't need wars to shoot people. You make laws and issue executive orders, and when they are violated, you send people to hit the violators with sticks until they comply, and if that doesn't work, to shoot them until they stop moving. Any and all economic policy is ultimately backed by violence. That's what governments are for.