Although The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo doesn’t position the family as a safe haven from society’s ills, the novel and its adaptation could be seen as precursors to this trend.

Source: https://screenrant.com/a-nearly-normal-family-ending-explained/

In the 1980s, the US and Britain backed Saddam in the war against Iran, giving Iraq arms, money, satellite intelligence, and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors.

Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2023/02/27/us-media-washington-needs-to-capitalize-on-falklands-case-to-restore-hemispheric-unity?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_content=main&utm_campaign=rss

Last month, RCMP investigators in B.C. made two arrests and seized precursors worth an estimated 262 million fentanyl doses.

Source: https://www.chroniclejournal.com/news/national/u-s-crackdown-on-fentanyl-trade-underway-as-canada-vows-public-health-approach/article_60aa6a3b-5a8a-5d29-96aa-35441bd31d31.html

So-called fentanyl precursors are chemicals used to produce the powerful synthetic opioid that has fueled a rise in drug overdose deaths in the United States in recent years.

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/world/us-takes-action-against-chinese-companies-people-tied-fentanyl-3818466?cid=cna_flip_070214