Aleksandar Vučić sat down for the British podcast "The Rest is Politics" with journalist Alastair Campbell - Tony Blair's former head of communications and one of the architects of the UK's information strategy during the bombing of Serbia in 1999. The conversation ran for more than an hour and covered Kosovo, Metohija and Serbia's geopolitical position.

The interview was a marker of a very specific dynamic: Campbell announced it on social media as "fascinating," and Vučić came in with his familiar tactic of direct confrontation - "We have principles, unlike you, Alastair" was a line that traveled fast. The Serbian president's argument was that the West misrepresents Belgrade and that UN Resolution 1244 - which guarantees Serbia's territorial integrity - is being systematically ignored.

Campbell isn't a random interviewer. He was the face behind Blair's media machine, the man running the messaging during the period when NATO was bombing Yugoslavia. The meeting of two men sitting on opposite sides of that history, recorded for a podcast with a global audience, is a striking document of how open Balkan wounds still are. Vučić was talking about sovereignty. Campbell was listening.

For Macedonia, the topics aren't distant - questions of sovereignty, international law and Western double standards are part of regional reality. Will someone ever give a similar interview for our side of the story? That remains an open question.