Does no one know any history?
Wikipedia shows Anne Applebaum graduated from Yale, among other esteemed institutions of higher learning. Therefore she should know that this theory that trade partners would not go to war was thoroughly debunked by the outbreak of WWI.
Pre-WWI was the first great era of globalization – after that, global trade actually fell markedly for a variety of reasons.
Anyway, I’m not here to declaim about global trade other than to note that often even very educated people aren’t all that smart.