What if Ukraine would be Alaska?

Today I stumbled on the following post on Facebook and would like to share it with my readers. It is a perspective from someone growing up in Ukraine and living and suffering through the last years and current situation.

I would like to add that the current situation must also be viewed from a historical perspective. After the liberalization movement in 1991, the USSR dissolved and many republics and former Russian territories such as Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Georgia, etc. became independent after an anti-communist coup led by Boris Yeltsin with the support of the USA. Ukraine officially became an independent state on December 2, 1991. The Soviet Union and Communist Party collapsed and Russia took responsibility for all debts treaties, and properties that originally belonged to the Union. The Soviet Union was dissolved in 1991, and the Russian Federation formed with (pro-US Empire) president, Boris Yeltsin, installed. The USSR not only freely gave up a huge part of their territory WITHOUT ANY FIGHT but also became infiltrated, undermined and subverted by US capitalistic influence. Of course Russia had to make sure their nation and borders where safe. Therefore, the West agreed with Russia at the time that NATO would not expand eastward. Today, media denies that such an agreement would exist. But I grew up in Germany and I am old enough to remember that this was common knowledge in the 1990's. The issue over Ukraine membership in NATO, is fundamentally about Russia's security. NATO's non-expansion to the east was agreed upon back in 1991, but since then NATO pushed further and further east (including Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Romania and more). Russia has been asking for this agreement to be honored for over 30 years, but the West has been repeatedly trampled on this request by simply violating the agreement with Russia over and over again. I don't think it is too much to ask and greatly admire the patience of the Russian President. I am sure that another Russian president would have tried to enforce the agreement earlier and with more vigor.

Does the West really believe that the USSR would have given up territories without security agreements?

Imagine if the US had given full independence to 14 of its states and territories, such as Alaska, Hawai, New Mexico, and Puerto Rico, and allowed them to enter into military alliances with Russia or China, which in turn would have installed presidents, governments, NGO’s, secret Russian or Chinese biological/bioweapon laboratories, military bases, and nuclear weapons in Alaska, Hawai, New Mexico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.... No one would consider it unreasonable for the U.S. to insist that Alaska, for example, would remain independent.

We have this problem only because the USSR voluntarily gave independence to 14 territories without a fight, in return for which it understandably demanded security.

Do people really believe that Ukraine and the other 13 nations would actually be independent today if the West and Russia had not agreed upon that NATO would not expand eastward?

Why is it so unthinkable that the Ukraine remains independent and will NOT join NATO?