Are there no military advisors in there? Surely somebody must've told them that VoA is a key pysop agency. Or is Musk one of those bosses that don't let their advisors advise?

Either way I'm constantly waffling between "this actually makes sense" and "this actually makes no sense" and killing VoA and specially RFE makes no strategic sense to me. Although "Europe is already free" in the liberal sense, Europe is still in dispute both in the world market sense wrt China alignment, but also internally with the myriad anti-NATO parties.

Backing away from that front on a crucial moment with the coming backlash and fingerpointing of the end of Ukraine seems to me at best to be a tactical retreat from obvious defeat, or just a big blunder. So if this is a rational decision (and it's getting hard to tell from Musk's antics but also incompetent "progressive" liberal reporting), this is would be IMO an announcement of propagandistic weakness wrt Europe.

Edit: Fuck, I think I get it. They're gutting all this psyop apparatus because they intend to double down on more effective means. They have Google (YouTube), Meta (Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram) and Musk (Twitter) fully on board. That's the only unchallenged hegemony left, and I believe it's gonna get very intense soon.