Learn German: Egal, wohin wir gehen, wir landen in einer Sackgasse. - No matter where we go, we land in a dead end.

The word egal means "equal" or "irrelevant". When you combine egal with a question word like wohin (where to), it creates the meaning "no matter [question word]". Notice that wohin wir gehen acts as a subordinate clause here, which is why the conjugated verb gehen gets kicked to the very end of that clause.

Since Egal, wohin wir gehen is at the start of the sentence, why doesn't the second part start with the verb (landen wir)?

You have a great eye! Normally, putting a subordinate clause in the first position forces the main clause to start with the verb (the "verb-second" rule). However, phrases starting with Egal, ... are often treated as independent "add-ons" outside the core sentence structure. Because of this, the main clause wir landen... can just keep its normal subject-verb order. Saying landen wir... is also grammatically correct, but keeping the normal word order is very common in everyday speech.

Why do we use wohin instead of just wo?

In English, we often use "where" for both location and direction. German is strict about the difference: wo means "where at" (a fixed location), while wohin means "where to" (movement toward a destination). Because the verb gehen (to go) involves movement toward a destination, you must use the directional wohin.

Since we are moving, why does in einer Sackgasse use the dative case instead of the accusative?