Mm, doubt it. The US has, for better or worse, been the most powerful country for most of the last 50-60 years. That is changing as the world changes, and any change in the status of the US will be read by some as imminent doom.
In reponse to August I've noticed this more from Americans, but less seriously. It seems like a major theme for most political parties, "we must do X/elect X/vote X or else our American way of life will disappear", this kind of thing. Which sounds like THE END IS NIGH guys, how very surprised they must be to wake up in the morning.
What certain foreigners tend to do is look externally, Iraq/Afghanistan etc, and predict the End of America, which sort of misses the point as well as being laden with Schadenfreude
For what it's worth, the US has a strange, strange history, and it hasn't progressed or regressed to the same songbook as most countries. I figure it won't in the future, either.
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