Later this month, world leaders, diplomats, and politicians from across the world will gather in New York for the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting under the banner 'Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights.' Under current circumstances, the theme of 'better together' feels more evocative of a plea to save a failing marriage than any anticipated genuine commitment to multilateralism. It comes as no surprise that the multilateral order is badly adrift, with the age of the Middle Powers--alongside China and the US--bearing down upon the grim-seeming decades to come. What celebrations will be planned for the UN's 80th birthday will have to be seen, but with the Gaza Strip lying in ruins and the contours of the 'illiberal globalised' alliance in shape, it is hard to envisage anything beyond a continued attempt to maintain the slipping status quo. And though Gaza and Ukraine will—understandably—absorb much of the international oxygen, the Horn of Africa is facing its most intense crisis for decades.