International security

Experts say Russia will likely get away with buzzing U.S. destroyer

Russia's dangerously close flight maneuvers against a U.S. Navy destroyer in the Baltic Sea this week violate a deal signed in 1972, but analysts say there's not much the U.S. can do to enforce the "rules-of-the-road"-type agreement.

The agreement between the U.S. and Russia on "the prevention of incidents on and over the high seas" was designed to stop incidents like the one this week that saw Russian Su-24 jets fly very close to the USS Donald Cook in the Baltic Sea.

It specifically prevents aircraft from both countries from "simulating attacks at, launching objects toward or illuminating the bridges of the other party's [sic] ships" and requires "aircraft commanders to use the greatest caution and prudence in approaching aircraft and ships of the other party...