Former US president Donald Trump described Germany as a “hostage of Russia” in comments to “Fox Business” on Tuesday. He was referring to the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, poised to deliver Russian gas to Germany via the Baltic Sea, which has strained ties between Berlin and Washington amid the crisis at the Ukrainian border. “I really tried to convince [Angela Merkel] not to do the pipeline deal because I said that Germany would be absolutely a hostage. And that is what it is, a hostage of Russia,” Trump told the broadcaster. Trump also criticized Merkel’s successor, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, for his…