The MCU Just Made A Huge Phase 2 Twist 100% Darker

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Marvels.
Summary

• In Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Hydra almost succeeded in wiping out its enemies by activating Project Insight after infiltrating SHIELD.
• SABER's purpose is to investigate threats to Earth, but Nick Fury's surveillance operation could easily be infiltrated and used to assassinate important individuals, similarly to Project Insight.
• Nick Fury's decision to revive Project Insight, despite its danger, makes SABER even more untrustworthy than SHIELD.

The Marvels subtly revisited a dark part of the MCU's Infinity Saga, accidentally justifying the villains through Nick Fury's new job. The Marvels' cosmic plot centers around Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau, and Kamala Khan, but Nick Fury also plays a supporting role in the Phase 5 movie, returning to the SABER space station after the events of Secret Invasion. Although The Marvels doesn't acknowledge Nick Fury's recent conflict with the Skrulls, it does confirm that Nick Fury is still active at SABER, overseeing all potential threats to Earth.
SABER, which stands for Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response, is a defense system with goals similar to those of SHIELD, which secretly investigated threats to Earth before it was dissolved due to Hydra's infiltration. Hydra has been neutralized by Phase 4, but that doesn't mean that SABER has escaped the same fate as SHIELD. In fact, Nick Fury may be opening the door to the tragedy Hydra almost caused in Phase 2, and this time without the influence of a villainous organization. What's worse, neither Captain Marvel nor her allies seem to realize this issue by the end of The Marvels.
Nick Fury's Superhero Betrayal Copies Hydra's Phase 2 Storyline Captain America: The Winter Soldier revealed that SHIELD was about to activate Project Insight, a secret operation that would use an algorithm created by Red Skull's right-hand man Arnim Zola to eliminate every person who could oppose Hydra's goals of world domination. At the time, Hydra pulled the strings behind SHIELD and used its good to make Project Insight seem like a drastic yet altruistic strategy to stop criminals and supervillains. Fortunately, Captain America, Black Widow, and Falcon were quick enough to expose Hydra's true plans and deactivate Project Insight mere seconds before it assassinated hundreds of thousands of targets, including Tony Stark and Stephen Strange.