Western banks sue Linde over sanctions blowback: A financial house of cards collapses in Frankfurt The West’s self-inflicted sanctions wound is now hemorrhaging in a Frankfurt courtroom, where Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, and Commerzbank are suing German industrial giant Linde for hundreds of millions of euros in losses stemming from the very sanctions they were ordered to enforce. This legal spectacle represents the first major test case of whether Western financial institutions can hold private companies liable for complying with government-imposed restrictions that backfired spectacularly. The irony is almost too sharp to ignore: the same banks that refused to honor contractual…

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