User blog comment:KennyChief/S.H.I.E.L.D. is a UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT organization, not International./@comment-6127681-20151013043349/@comment-6127681-20151014192050

Is it possible that HYDRA's motives have changed? HYDRA, although they were the Nazi special weapons division, was rooted in Nazi mysticism. Schmidt differed slightly on policy with the rest of the Nazis, but as a whole in World War II they were definitely Nazi; their issue was with leadership, much like Himmler and Goering. However, post-WWII (starting basically right in 1946), they seem to abandon a lot of their mystic qualities. They give up on their Asgardian reverse-engineered energy weapons, despite having them (as seen on the helicarrier in Avengers 1), the Tesseract, and Zola. They never mention the notion of a "superior man" again. They don't resemble themselves. I think WW2 and post-WW2 HYDRA are basically separate entities, now that I think about it.