George Bush is considered by many to be a war criminal

Yes, but to equate it to the below is a false equivalence.

"First of all, it should be remembered that Putin is not just a president of an aggressor country, but he is wanted by the International Criminal Court and accused of genocide and war crimes," MEP Urmas Paet, who previously served as Estonia's foreign minister, told Newsweek.

we being free people can discern fact from fiction

Hmmm. I'm not sure recent history bears that out, at least with regard to US politics.

Where, exactly, should the line be draw then between “reporting” and “being a mouthpiece”.

Not sure. But that doesn't mean there isn't one, nor that it can't be apparent when it's been crossed.

The EU has good reason to fear anything that emboldens Putin or works in even the slightest to increase his chances of prevailing in Ukraine. It's quite clear that a victorious Russia is an existential threat to its neighbors. With all this discernment of fact that's going on, it seems like that should be fairly easy to understand.

push for platforms to not give airtime to hacks like Tucker.

How is this not exactly that?

The easier solution is to not grant the government that kind of censorship power,

To my knowledge he's not being prevented from sharing his beliefs, nor has the interview been banned, nor has he been imprisoned for any of this. Where's the censorship?