# Security and geopolitics: when can a veto block a decision?

Choose a documented moment and compare what each international mechanism can block, constrain or require.

https://mariuscomper.uk/en/security/

- [The UN veto: the 331 votes that stopped Security Council decisions, 1946–2026](https://mariuscomper.uk/cine-opreste-onu/en/): Every veto vote in the UN register, from 1946 to 2026, is one rectangle in a chart by year, coloured by the permanent member that voted against. Pick a year, a country or a subject; every entry leads to the original document. The meeting of 13 December 1955, with 16 vetoes, is shown name by name: Romania was admitted the next day.
- [How independent of Moscow was Romania? What 70 years of UN votes show](https://mariuscomper.uk/romania-la-onu/en/): 7,607 recorded votes in the UN General Assembly, 1955 to 2025, drawn as a city at night: a tower for every year, a window for every vote. The lit windows are the votes Romania cast differently from Moscow. Up to 1989 Romania did so 490 times, Bulgaria 14. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [Pax Silica: the US declaration on the artificial-intelligence supply chain, who signed it and what has been done](https://mariuscomper.uk/pax-silica/en/): The full text of the declaration, its 25 signatories on a map through time, the eight layers of the technology chain and what has been announced or launched in each, with every claim tied to its source.
- [Seven Days to the River Rhine: the 1979 map, its targets, and the 2005 disclosure](https://mariuscomper.uk/seven-days-to-the-river-rhine/en/): A 1979 Warsaw Pact exercise map, presented to the public in Warsaw in 2005: seven cities in the Guardian report, four more in the Telegraph, NATO strikes on the Vistula. Verified city by city, no merged list.
- [One licence, two speeds](https://mariuscomper.uk/licenta-doua-viteze/en/): A table covering 43 police forces shows that new firearms grants and renewals can take very different amounts of time.
- [You tapped the link. The money may leave days later](https://mariuscomper.uk/dupa-ce-ai-apasat/en/): What happens to your card after you tap a fake text, in the scheme Google and analysts describe: a few minutes while they take it, days of silence, then ten minutes in which the money can go. Scroll through it.
- [Shi Yousan, the general who changed sides 13 times](https://mariuscomper.uk/shi-yousan/en/): The Chinese general Shi Yousan changed sides 13 times between 1926 and 1940 and seven times turned on the side he served. Take his seat at nine forks, see his whole career on one line and the three versions of his death. In Romanian, English and Chinese.
- [How Marian Rejewski broke Enigma: a working machine and his mathematical attack](https://mariuscomper.uk/enigma-rejewski/en/): An exact Enigma that decrypts a real German message from 7 July 1941, then Rejewski's attack run on your device: the doubled key, the loops the cables cannot change and the 105,456-row catalogue, built in seconds. Plus the codebreakers' passage through Romania in 1939.
- [The Bill from the Sky](https://mariuscomper.uk/factura-de-pe-cer/en/): Three drones downed in three days, the public costs of interception and the options of a layered counter-drone defence, in a briefing with a timeline and scenario calculator. The MApN table updated 12 September 2026 reports 71 attacks near the border, 55 aircraft-scramble situations, 27 intrusions, 4 shootdowns and 37 situations with drones or fragments. A MApN statement on the 5–6 September Tulcea alert reports no intrusions into national airspace; at Viișoara, a drone found on the ground was later neutralised by controlled detonation, and provenance remains under investigation.
- [The metro they built without asking Moscow](https://mariuscomper.uk/metroul-din-bucuresti/en/): Rejected by Moscow in 1952, opened with 6 stations in 1979: the decision, the digging, the first train, today's network.
- [The operator stays at the keyboard · SilkParasite](https://mariuscomper.uk/operatorul-la-tastatura/en/): What professional AI-assisted cyberespionage looks like: seven RAT families, on-demand modules and commands carried through Google Drive.
- [The first Romanian sentence was a spy alert: Neacșu's letter (1521)](https://mariuscomper.uk/scrisoarea-lui-neacsu/en/): The oldest precisely dated Romanian text is a spy warning from Câmpulung to Brașov. Read it phrase by phrase, with renderings.
- [Romania needs Mangalia for a €920m naval programme. It does not control the shipyard's sale](https://mariuscomper.uk/mangalia-gate/en/): A bilingual explanation of the bankruptcy sale of Damen Shipyards Mangalia's assets, state-owned land, the SAFE contract for four vessels and creditor power.
- [When the file starts telling your story](https://mariuscomper.uk/my-life-as-a-spy/): A source-grounded reading guide to Katherine Verdery's book, the 2,781-page Securitate file, and the identity surveillance built around an anthropologist in communist Romania.
- [Can I pack this? UK airport liquid rules, airport by airport](https://mariuscomper.uk/can-i-pack-this/): Heathrow lets a 2-litre container through security. Stansted still stops an ordinary liquid over 100 ml.
- [The Orcas of Polymarket: Inside the Longshot Betting Ecosystem on Military Markets](https://mariuscomper.uk/polymarket-orcas/en/): The analysis follows 78,496 longshot trades, 152 selective wallets, and the accounts that copy their positions in markets tied to military action.
- [The Shadow Archipelago: Inside the Secret Military Units of Romanian Intelligence in Public Procurement](https://mariuscomper.uk/arhipelagul-din-umbra/en/): Contactless camera pulse detection, facial micro-expressions, automated psycholinguistics, and the 668M RON cyber shield: 6 secret military units in public procurement.
- [Who has the key?](https://mariuscomper.uk/adaposturi/en/): 6,118 entries. 199 marked public and functional. A register that reaches the address without saying who opens the door.
- [After a Scam, the Order Matters](https://mariuscomper.uk/dupa-escrocherie/en/): One incident can affect money, accounts, devices, and identity. The plan puts each response in priority order.
- [How debt becomes access](https://mariuscomper.uk/debt-becomes-access/en/): Debt appears before access: a loan, financial help, a recorded pledge, information and payment. The ledger keeps the exact evidence status attached to every step.
- [Seventeen Hectares, Nine Thousand Seven Hundred Square Kilometres](https://mariuscomper.uk/saptesprezece-hectare/en/): A rock the size of a park decided the fate of 12,200 km² of sea. Drag the slider through 144 years, 1878–2022, along the real ICJ ruling line.
- [Two Railways in One Company](https://mariuscomper.uk/doua-cai-ferate/en/): Romania granted its state rail carrier a peacetime military mandate, but the firm competes commercially with RON 601M in revenue and up to RON 2B authorized equity.
- [The Radio Accent of Satellites](https://mariuscomper.uk/accentul-satelitilor/en/): 5.17 million transmissions prove every satellite has a unique hardware signature. Researchers identified all 66 Iridium spacecraft across a month and rejected a ground SDR spoofer forging valid protocol packets.
- [Before the Write · Pre-Positioning on Siemens S7 Industrial Controllers](https://mariuscomper.uk/inainte-de-scriere/en/): Five U.S. federal agencies warn that threat actors are actively pre-positioning against Siemens S7 industrial PLCs using AI-generated tooling disguised as legitimate monitoring software, preparing for future disruptive write operations rather than mere scanning.
- [The Tested Sky · Drone Defense Architecture and the Cochstedt Airport Proving Ground](https://mariuscomper.uk/cerul-testat/en/): Germany has inaugurated the Technology Centre for Drone Security at Cochstedt airport: a permanent live-airfield proving ground connecting police, scientists, and industry to test counter-UAS stacks in realistic civil aviation conditions before operational deployment.
- [The Message Inside the Message](https://mariuscomper.uk/mesajul-din-mesaj/en/): Even if an intelligence service legally obtains the keys and decrypts every Signal message, users can hide a second conversation inside the cryptographic transcript. An interactive simulation of anamorphic encryption.
- [The Shape of Traffic. What encrypted packets reveal when the destination is hidden](https://mariuscomper.uk/forma-traficului/en/): The Tor network hides destinations and contents, yet encrypted packet streams retain a temporal profile. A peer-reviewed USENIX Security ’26 study shows how target watchlist maintenance becomes radically cheaper via few-shot learning.
- [The Minister Reads It First](https://mariuscomper.uk/ministrul-citeste-primul/en/): The law requires prior declaration before publication or distribution and can bring unclassified operational methods within ministerial review when disclosure could impair a service's effectiveness or endanger its agents.
- [The Target Is the Sensor](https://mariuscomper.uk/target-is-the-sensor/en/): A sourced explainer of Russia’s evolving precision-strike system, with an interactive counter-ISTAR scenario, learning curve and non-operational eastern-flank exercise.
- [DGPI's security lab, lot by lot](https://mariuscomper.uk/cu-ce-testeaza-mai/en/): All ten lots awarded for DGPI's security-testing laboratory, with products named in the tender, suppliers, award values and the limits of the public record.
- [The picture is the transmitter](https://mariuscomper.uk/trojpix/en/): A screen can look still while tiny pixel changes make its video cable radiate data. A safe visual simulation of the TrojPix mechanism.
- [Same Missile, Three Names, Depending on Who Launches It](https://mariuscomper.uk/numele-rachetelor/en/): The American system, unchanged since 1963, that gives every missile a three-letter code: where it launches from, what it hits, what kind of weapon it is. 315 active codes, an interactive decoder, and a new letter added in March 2025.
- [Was Romania invented in Paris? The treaty of 1856](https://mariuscomper.uk/paris-1856/en/): The articles that unmade a protectorate and started a union. Read the treaty, then the portraits.
- [How an attacker reached a power plant through a wind farm](https://mariuscomper.uk/apn-trust-path/en/): Reconstructing a Polish energy-sector attack from a wind farm through a private APN to a separate CHP plant and Siemens PLCs. With evidence, uncertainty and questions for Romania.
- [A telescope in New Zealand: what it would add to a Chinese satellite-tracking network](https://mariuscomper.uk/telescop-noua-zeelanda/en/): A day of real orbits for more than five thousand objects: what a station placed anywhere on land adds to a Chinese network, where New Zealand ranks, and what the NZSIS report on Purple Mountain Observatory does and does not say.
- [Encrypted for whom?](https://mariuscomper.uk/criptat-pentru-cine/en/): A call can be encrypted and still be interceptable when a media server accepts the wrong identity. The WebRTC evidence, without alarmism.
- [The Offer That Knew Too Much](https://mariuscomper.uk/oferta-stie-prea-mult/en/): Two real cases described by NZSIS show how a job offer can buy professional judgement before it asks for documents.
- [One control panel. Two businesses.](https://mariuscomper.uk/jewelbug/en/): Follow one shared panel across two operations, then watch one template change reach 15+ tenants.
- [Is Ceuta a colony?](https://mariuscomper.uk/ceuta/en/): Four facts change the question about Ceuta.
- [FIREPLACES: why informants talk and why motives change](https://fireplaces.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Ten motives. Five hearths. One changing mixture.
- [Who can stop a public system before the attacker does?](https://mariuscomper.uk/stat-digital/en/): Rules cover fragments. The service as a whole still lacks an owner who follows its risk from end to end.
- [Pocket Beacon · How Phones are Hunted in Warzone Operations](https://ss7-beacon.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Two invisible paths through which an ordinary phone can reveal military personnel movements.
- [He Worked for the FSB. Then an AI May Have Read 13,000 Emails](https://llm-email-dossier.mariuscomper.uk/en/): The indictment says Denis Obrezko worked for the FSB, then became deputy director at Yutek-NN. His phone contained a file with LLM summaries of more than 13,000 stolen parliamentary emails.
- [Romania at 2.43% · 15th on NATO's Table](https://nato-defence-2026.mariuscomper.uk/en/): A bilingual briefing from NATO's 2014–2026 tables: Romania's defence baseline, ranking, trajectory, eastern flank, The Hague and Ankara.
- [“God Helped Us, and AI Will Do the Same”](https://casp-boko-haram-ai.mariuscomper.uk/en/): A public dossier based on 57 interviews with 27 former Boko Haram members about the institutional use of frontier AI in combat.
- [How Tom Clancy Built a Secret World From Things Found in Plain Sight](https://clancy-method.mariuscomper.uk/en/): An interactive dossier on Tom Clancy's lessons for analysts: open sources, tacit knowledge, scenarios, wargaming, technical explanation and intelligent secrecy.
- [Seizing Iran's Uranium: The Physics of an Impossible Operation](https://mariuscomper.github.io/presentations/): A visual analysis of the impossible operation of locating, suppressing, accessing and evacuating enriched uranium from Iran.
- [The Blackout Bomb](https://blu114b.mariuscomper.uk/): What BLU-114/B is, how it works and what its use in Iran would mean.
- [Windows Remembered the Machine](https://mariuscomper.uk/windows-gdid-scattered-spider/en/): A device identifier links an intrusion to a chain of logs and accounts.
- [Of Necessity](https://of-necessity.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Trump's Iranian dilemma and the political logic of a strike that can coexist with negotiation.
- [The Flamingo Register](https://registrul-flamingo.mariuscomper.uk/en/): An OSINT microsite about Ukraine's FP series, strikes, evidence and unknowns.
- [Who Thought First?](https://cine-a-gandit-primul.mariuscomper.uk/en/): When AI enters before the verdict, the page shows which traces must be preserved so the source, transformations and human accountability can be reconstructed.
- [Romania, Turla and Russia’s cyber ecosystem](https://russia-cyber-ecosystem.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Romania confirms Turla targeted the country. An interactive dossier on GRU recruitment, credentials stolen through Lumma and sabotage attributed to the FSB.
- [One Opened Email, a Whole Server Compromised](https://masstraction-physics.mariuscomper.uk/en/): The UNK_MassTraction campaign uses Roundcube vulnerabilities to turn the victim's browser into a pivot toward the server, from XSS to memory-only implants.
- [Pickaxe Mountain: the target lies deeper than the promise](https://pickaxe-mountain.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Why Pickaxe Mountain is a difficult nuclear target to assess: two tunnel complexes near Natanz, 80–100 m of rock and four different outcomes hidden inside the promise to “take it out”.
- [One Target, Two Flags](https://convergenta-pakistan.mariuscomper.uk/en/): How China- and India-nexus cyberespionage actors reached the same Pakistani police servers and converged on Balochistan Police.
- [The Birds Closing Crimea](https://crimea-cutoff.mariuscomper.uk/en/): Robert Brovdi and the network Ukraine is striking.
- [The ANCPI cyberattack: what is confirmed and what works now](https://mariuscomper.uk/ancpi-atac/en/): DNSC confirms extensive access; e-Terra is operating again, but other ANCPI platforms remain unavailable.
- [A7 — how Russia rebuilt payment routes under sanctions](https://mariuscomper.uk/a7/en/): Two payment routes, one network, and the points where sanctions try to break it.
- [Everything looked legitimate](https://mariuscomper.uk/totul-parea-legitim/en/): When an authentic thing is used in a malicious relationship, trust can move from one victim to the next target.
- [The cyberattack everyone detected and nobody saw](https://mariuscomper.uk/acro-cyber-attack/): The failure was not a missing sensor. It was the missing relay between a signal and a person who owned the next action.
- [Holo, hype and heists](https://mariuscomper.uk/pokemon-carduri/en/): A piece of cardboard can be a game, a memory, a social badge, a speculative asset and a target for criminals.
- [Soviet ships sunk by Romania in WWII: a Black Sea loss map](https://mariuscomper.uk/nave-sovietice-scufundate/en/): Interactive map of the 18 Soviet vessels lost to Romanian mines and actions, 1941–1944: 6 solid attributions, 2 disputed cases, each with evidence and caveats.
- [Stanislav Petrov, 26 September 1983: the false alarm, minute by minute](https://mariuscomper.uk/stanislav-petrov/en/): A Soviet satellite reported five American missiles in flight. The officer on duty had minutes to say whether they were real. Take his seat, then see what the satellite saw.

## Sources

- [Carta Organizației Națiunilor Unite · Articolul 27](https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text)
- [Consiliul de Securitate · sistemul de vot](https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/content/voting-system)
- [Repertoriul practicii organelor ONU · voturile Consiliului de Securitate, 1946–1951](https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/sites/default/files/repertoire_1946_1951.pdf)
- [Biblioteca Dag Hammarskjöld · lista veto-urilor ONU](https://www.un.org/depts/dhl/resguide/scact_veto_table_en.htm)
- [Colecția de tratate a ONU · Tratatul de neproliferare](https://treaties.un.org/pages/showDetails.aspx?objid=08000002801d56c5)
- [NATO · invocarea Articolului 5 în 2001](https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/110496.htm)
- [Consiliul Europei · Convenția privind criminalitatea informatică](https://www.coe.int/web/conventions/full-list/-/conventions/treaty/185/signatures)