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  • I’m too lazy to keep looking, but here’s a small sampling. Ambassador positions to friendly countries tend to go to friends/donors and not worth comparing. DOGE can’t be compared, as it doesn’t exist. Figures are whatever I found at the top of google, not adjusted for inflation or value the years they were in office. Big enough gap that it didn’t matter. Maybe someone else can check Bush?

    2013 Obama - $6M

    • Secretary of Commerce - Penny Pritzker - $3.6B
    • Secretary of Education - Arne Duncan - $4.8M
    • Secretary of Interior - Ken Salazar - $2M
    • Small Business Administrator - Karen G Mills - “At least” $705,000
    • NASA Administrator - Charles F Bolden - “At least” $537,000






















  • All or most of the “powerful” countries being involved, usually directly. Basically take a look at the top military powers, if majority are active boots on ground, running military strategies, fighting and taking a wartime position domestically, you’ve got a world war.

    Really though it’s a new-ish term, and highly subjective. WW1 was the Great War until it popped off again. For a modern thought experiment - could the war on terror be considered a world war? Much of the world’s fighting power was dragged into it to some degree, but most people would say no.

    Long story short, it’s a ‘world war’ when historians decide it was.