"It looked like the strongest military in Russia took a run at something that was at least threatening to be a coup and Putin squashed it with a few threats," he says. "If you take one foot into Moscow, I'm going to start killing your family one at a time." If what Putin did was tell everybody to not engage or at least not engage much, there may have been some helicopter action on his part. 'I think probably that they actually agreed to go in the kill box'