Now Ukraine has responded to Russia's trade war threat/folk festival ad with a South Park GIF

Brett T. | 8:14 PM on August 02, 2017

We’d suggest that in the future wars will be fought not on the battlefield but on social media, but it looks like it’s already happening. It was weird enough watching officials from Norway and Denmark squabble online over which country was the true homeland of trolls, but now Russia and Ukraine are getting into it.

As Twitchy reported, Russia’s official Twitter account responded to a new batch of sanctions signed into law by President Trump by issuing a sort of threat, accompanied by what looks like an ad for a Renaissance fair. We’re going to go ahead and assume these aren’t the same people who “hacked” the 2016 election with their mad computer skills.

Whoever comes to us with #sanctions, from sanctions will perish. We dedicate this video to those who try to hurt us with new sanctions! pic.twitter.com/VdoYI3mK2u

— Russia ?? (@Russia) August 2, 2017

Now Ukraine has jumped in, choosing to troll Russia over its threat that America will perish by sanctions if that’s the route it chooses to take. Oh, and they included a South Park GIF to illustrate their point.

If you'd respected international law, you would've avoided sanctions & would've been sending missions to Mars now, not running with sticks pic.twitter.com/sNJ02LeNwY

— Ukraine / Україна (@Ukraine) August 2, 2017

And… That's a SICK burn from Ukraine. https://t.co/KqbHxDFQJf

— Cinderblock Stan Account (@MvelaseP) August 2, 2017

That is quite a burn.

https://twitter.com/axadxx/status/892884886008217600

Not only are two countries arguing via Twitter again, but they're now using South Park gifs… https://t.co/O9Sg3Dkq6h

— Kassy Dillon (@KassyDillon) August 2, 2017