Another major brand associated with American industry is beating back foreign interlopers. As CSX battles TCI with the courts and thorough counting of votes, Anheuser-Busch is similarly not going down without a brawl with InBev. They’re even dragging the Cuba embargo into it. The dollar might be cheap, but American pride is apparently not for sale.

If ever there was any doubt that Anheuser-Busch intends to fight InBev tooth and nail, the American brewer’s lawsuit on Monday should dispel them.

In its lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of its home state of Missouri, Anheuser accused its unwanted suitor of a litany of sins, from rumor-mongering to lying to trying to violate the United States’s trade embargo with Cuba. It blasted InBev’s approach as “illegal.”

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