Which alliances? Trade? Trade away! Ukraine can sell and buy anything. Military alliances? American bases near Russian border? American rocket bases near Russian border? That shit we don't want. Remember Cuban crysis? You never wanted Russian rockets on Cuba - we don't want American rockers in Ukraine.

Then again, we have naval base in Ukraine and we love it. Sevastopol is basically Russian (ethnically, culturally and historically). We don't want to lose that base. We fought for it in several bloody wars. It's like America losing Perl Harbor. Also, we have all kinds of military manufacturing cooperation with Ukraine. Soviet economy was very complicated and stretched across the country. It will very hard to compensate all those losses. And NATO will force Ukraine to buy American weapons and to shut the local production. Who will pay for that?

 And we don't want to target American bases in Ukraine. We don't want to target anything in Ukraine. We spent centuries fighting for those territories with Poles, Germans, Turks. We assembled present Ukraine like puzzle from blood soaked pieces.