As always the CIA amplifies and foments any legitimate form of protest or dissent into some regime-ending catastrophe for communism, and the press and social media sphere dutifully acts as its stenographers.

Probably the most accurate and succinct way of explaining things. I've seen other people point out that if these protests in Cuba constitute a need for regime change, then did 'Stop the Steal' not constitute the same? A minority of ultra nationalist protestors who want a more conservative governance.