Middle Easterners and Brazilians were the big pushers of the Olympia this year. Tons of folks from those two areas commenting on it. The Olympia goes where the money is. The Middle Easterners have pumped a lot of money and time into bodybuilding the last decade and a half or so, and we're on reasonable terms right now with them, so it's ok to give them their rightful shot. Hadi deserved the win.
That being said, a few years of "politics" mellowing out doesn't mean they can't come back.